Who would have expected iambic pentameters in the 9-0-2-1-0? With a little help from the words of William Shakespeare, Marriotts Ridge High School’s production of “Twelfth Night” is a solid show with a fresh…
Pop music, coffee, and pink and black everywhere. 5 panels across the stage spell out everyone’s favorite zip code, 9-0-2-1-0. Are you on your way to a Miley Cyrus concert? No. You’re watching Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at…
In the words of Aerosmith, “Dude looks like a lady!” Like Aerosmith, many other artists found their way into Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night, including Beyonce, Nazareth, and Justin Timberlake. Marriotts Ridge High School’s…
Is she or isn’t she? Better yet, is he her or is she him? Nobody knows for sure, including their hairdressers, who’s who in Marriotts Ridge High School’s hilarious, gender-bending production of Twelfth Night.
Marriotts…
The traditional works of Shakespeare take a sharp right turn into pop culture at Marriotts Ridge’s production of Twelfth Night. And in Tinseltown, anything is possible!
Twelfth Night is noted as one of Shakespeare’s most beloved…
90210. “Welcome to the land of fame, excess!” This is Shakespeare’s Hollywood, filled with contemporary music hits, tight leather pants, sparkles, sequins, and…a leopard print Snuggie? Marriotts Ridge High School adapted…
Different colors light the stage. Catchy tunes surround the auditorium, while the cast of Marriott’s Ridge High School moves together to produce the waves of a violent storm that starts the brilliantly modernized production of William…
Twelfth Night
Marriotts Ridge transformed Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night into a trendy and clever performance. The actors’ energy and clear dedication to the show made for a terrific night on November nineteenth.
Shipwrecked and separated…
Combine romance, deception, two twins, three pairs of “pleather” pants, one giant zebra-print couch, a multitude of Ipods, and a handful of cute boys, and what does it equal? No, not an episode of 90210- though that isn’t far off.…
Nothing says “Shakespeare” like Razor scooters, fluorescent bottles of Vitamin Water, and Snuggie blankets. Nothing screams “Elizabethan Epiphany celebration” quite so succinctly as flashing disco lights, throbbing Miley…
Unrequited love can be upsetting, but loving a gentleman who is secretly a lady is just plain humiliating. Mistaken identities, massive shipwrecks, and Miley Cyrus all help Marriotts Ridge High School craft William Shakespeare’s hilarious…
Every time a new TV show about hip, angsty young teenagers airs, someone snarky in the audience has to comment. "That would never happen," they say. "What happened to traditional plots and themes?" Perhaps in response to these…
Cross-dressing, suppressed passion, revenge, and mistaken identities. . . .Sounds like the cover of a tabloid magazine!
Marriotts Ridge’s drama department took Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and put it in the midst of Hollywood’s…
Laptops, iPods, Pop Princesses, and Vitamin Water- not exactly what comes to mind when you think of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth night,” is it? The drama department at Marriotts Ridge High School presented this timeless comedy with a…
Shakespeare’s classic tale of mistaken identities, spiteful servants, and star-crossed lovers collided with the over-caffeinated, neon-colored world of modern Hollywood to fantastic effect in Marriotts Ridge High School’s charming and…