Sunday: Freestyle Shakespeare @ Newton Free Library

The Newton Free Library will be presenting Freestyle Shakespeare this Sunday at 2pm.

A hilarious performance of "Freestyle Shakespeare" will be presented at the Library on Sunday, February 15, 2:00PM.
"Freestyle Shakespeare" is the brainchild of Michael Anderson, a labor lawyer who creates witty monologues on cultural and historical topics. This show reflects his opinion that the Bard wrote plays as much for the common man in the cheap seats of the Globe Theater as for intellectuals to ponder. He talks about his favorite plays and characters, sometimes taking an original view of the classics, mixing philosophy and humor.
There's a humorous skit featuring a professor's critique of Sonnet 65's grammar, with students named Keats, Browning and Dickinson offering their opinions. There's "Answering Machine Shakespeare" and a speech from "MacBeth" set to the 1986 Red Sox World Series disaster. Libby Franck, host of the Center for the Arts in Natick's Outspoken Word Series, recounts her role in a Wellesley production of "Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1964, where the romances of the actors get as tangled as those of the characters. David Ingle, collector of Scottish songs, sings a 12 verse version of "Hamlet" written by a Glasgow high school teacher. He also plays a stuffy Harvard professor who doubts that Shakespeare's middle-class background could have prepared him to write such sophisticated lines.
Most of the actors are also storytellers. Glenn Morrow appears as the Bard in period dress. Kevin Brooks and Laura Packer, well-known in the storytelling community, play multiple roles. Franck, Packer and comic actress Liz Appleby provide two interpretations of the weird sisters in MacBeth.
Because these players first met at a storytelling venue in Cambridge created by Brother Blue, it is fitting that Blue's videotaped recitations of Shakespeare's lines open and close the program.
This production was successfully produced at Jimmy Tingle's Off-Broadway Theater in Somerville and the Center for the Arts in Natick.

I've seen portions of a recording of this performance, and it was hysterically funny.
Personally, I'm now torn, because I already have membership at Boskone for the same time, and want to attend both...