http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55798 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 17:09:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55798#post-161153 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:59:15 +0000 Tripod 161153@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Speaking in his broad Brummie accent, William Shakespeare has surprised his millions of fans around the world, by announcing he is writing a new play... fully four hundred years after <em>The Tempest</em> garnered rave reviews at the Globe Theatre. “The subject of the new play is Chris Huhne”, said the bard, “who fits the tragic template as a heroic man of destiny brought low by a character flaw: in his case, hubris. </p> <p>"His willingness to sacrifice family members, to feed his vaulting ambition, makes him an ideal subject for a morality play. Here’s a man who decides, after ten years denying any wrongdoing, to fall on his sword... just before that same sword was going to be used in a very public and painful disemboweling scene. </p> <p>“I plan on giving the cautionary tale of Macbeth another airing... with a few contemporary twists, of course. I might even wheel out the three witches for another cackle around the cauldron. Title? I’m toying with either <em>The Revenge of the Shrew</em> or <em>The Merry Ex-Wife of Windsor</em>”...</p> <p>In answer to the question ‘Will there be any dick jokes?’, from the drama critic of the <em>Sun</em>, Shakespeare winked and said “There’s a scene in Act Two where Huhne bends down in the showers to pick up the soap. That got a lot of laughs at the read-through”... </p>