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School is Now in Session
The idealistic young king of Navarre and his three best friends have vowed to devote themselves—and everyone else in the kingdom—to scholarship.* (All the other kings in Europe are going to be so impressed!**) They don’t want to get sidetracked by worldly pleasures—so they’ve outlawed eating more than one meal a day. They've outlawed sleeping more than three hours a night.*** And, most importantly, they’ve completely and totally outlawed interacting with women.****
But they haven’t outlawed gambling yet*****—so place your bets while you still can: how long will they hold out?
Here’s a hint: four beautiful ladies are arriving from France tomorrow…
* If you're wondering who's supposed to run the kingdom if everyone is busy studying: congratulations! You're way ahead of King Ferdinand!
** And/or spot the obvious opportunity to invade Navarre.
*** You might be thinking "maybe people in the 1500s didn't know this was bad." Nice try; it's sweet of you to give Ferdinand so much credit.
**** As everyone knows, you can either be smart or have a life, but not both.
***** Treason alert: these rules don't really make a lot of sense. (See where being book-smart gets you?)
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Get ready for our very first staged reading! After four productions, we’ve had too much excitement and decided it's time to revert to our academic roots—so we've carefully planned an exercise in pure intellectualism. No costumes, no props, no severed heads. Just an extremely serious introduction to one of Shakespeare’s least-known plays.*
…Alright, fine, you caught us. The truth is, we just want to treat you to an evening of cringeworthy puns, doomed pickup lines, off-color jokes, and astonishingly bad ideas, fueled by the classic message that school is a waste of time.** Fair warning: if you think Shakespeare is highbrow, you're going to change your mind really fast.
You can add your name to King Ferdinand's guest list here. Admission is pay-what-you-wish—but even if that number is $0, we still need you to RSVP. (After all, there's not much room in the ivory tower.)
See you in Navarre!
* Just so you understand what kind of people you're dealing with: we specifically selected this font for this play because it near-perfectly replicates a typeface commonly used in mid-16th-century French printing presses.
** The thing about the font is actually true, though. (It's EB Garamond.) Don't say we've never taught you anything.
About This Project
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