The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!" – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Happy 2025, listeners!!!

What are YOUR resolutions for this new year?? We have some... but more importantly, what resolutions do the characters in the canon have??

In this episode we discuss those and play some resolution=quotes from plays=what character and play games.

Whoooo Hooooo!!! Happy New Year, you dicks!! (And dickesses!!)


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As a follow up to our last episode, today we discuss the best roles in the Shakespeare canon.

SPOILER: There are A LOT more good ones than bad ones.

Check out Season 2 Episode 41 for our "A Visit From Saint Falstaff!!!"

Merry and Warm Everything and Happy New Year - you dicks and dickesses!!! (I - LA - want to note here that my laptop always changes dickesses to dickenses, which is amazingly appropriate this time of year.)


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Sooooooo..... not only is Emma Thompson a brilliant actor and wonderful human being, but she is the one who told Leda (Owen's wife) and Lisa Ann, in a bathroom in London after having seen that stunning As You Like It that we've talked so much about...

"Theatre is supposed to reduce you to rubble!"

Heaven knows this fabulous woman has done that SOOOOO many times in her career.  

We love her!!!!!


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We WERE going to call this episode Romantic Shakespeare - but then we realized in a lot of the plays, non-platonic relationships are often UNromantic so.... yeah.

So therefore, in this episode, we discuss the believability and viability of the "love" relationships in Shakespeare's plays.  Can one really sustain a marriage when you fall in love in less than a page?? Can you have a happy marriage when you have managed to get married by having some whore pretend to be you so your soon to be husband HAS to marry you???

It's a conundrum.  We discuss.

AND!!!!  Make sure you join us for second FREE benefit live stream of As You Like It !! 

Friday April 23, 2021 at 7:30 pm - Shakespeare's birthday!!!
                                      and 
Saturday April 24, 2021 at 3:00 pm - info will be on our website and all social media!!

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We have swag!!! That's right!!!  SWAG CAN BE YOURS (for a small donation)!!!!

To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com 

Episode Sources:

The Shakespeare Canon and our own personal opinions!!!

The Elizabethan era was a time of great fun and frivolity.... usually involving beating the crap out of someone or something.

Seriously.  You can't make this shit up.

Although........... since this episode was recorded on April 1 - Happy April Fool's Day!! - we did!! 

Listen to the episode and hit us up via our website or social media and tell us which two games are a product of our own twisted imaginations.  One right answer gets you a shout-out on the next episode; two right answers gets you a PRIZE!!!

That's right!!!  SWAG CAN BE YOURS!!!!


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Make sure you join us for second FREE benefit live stream of As You Like It !! 

Friday April 23, 2021 at 7:30 pm - Shakespeare's birthday!!!
                                      and 
Saturday April 24, 2021 at 3:00 pm - info will be on our website and all social media!!

It won't cost you a cent but if you like it, please consider donating to The Actors Fund or Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids. You can also find the YouTube livestream links on our website at: www.thebardcastyoudick.com, or on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages!!



Episode Sources:

Shakespeare and the interwebs  :)

What the dickens does "Invented by Shakespeare" mean???

As luck would have it - in this week's episode, we discuss all the phrases and words we modern folk use every day - that came directly from William Shakespeare!!

It's a brave new world!!  Can there be too much of a good thing?? It may be a foregone conclusion!!

But we wear our heart on our sleeves and it would be cold comfort if our listeners weren't waiting with bated breath to hear this episode - come on guys, kill us with kindness!!! 

Give the devil his due!!!

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Not for the faint-hearted! 

Friday April 23, 2021 at 7:30 pm - Shakespeare's birthday!!!
                                      and 
Saturday April 24, 2021 at 3:00 pm - info will be on our website and all social media!!

It won't cost you a cent but if you like it, please consider donating to The Actors Fund or Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids. You can also find the YouTube livestream links on our website at: www.thebardcastyoudick.com, or on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages!!



Episode Sources:

Shakespeare and the interwebs  :)

What do farting, syphillis, misogyny, homo-erotica, and bodily mutilation have in common??

They're ALL in the plays of Shakespeare!!!

In this episode we discuss all the things that make us go: 

"What the actually fuck, William Shakespeare?!??"


Make sure you stay tuned for information our next FREE benefit live stream of As You Like It in April 2021 - all info will be posted on our website at: www.thebardcastyoudick.com, or on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages!! 

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Shakespeare and the interwebs  :)

"It's the end of the world as we know it......"

Not really, although the pandemic has put quite a damper on theatre.  How to get around that???  One word....

ZOOM!!!!!!

In today's episode we discuss the inaugural livestream performance of The Bardcast Player's Macbeth.  How do artists make what quintessentially depends on the congregation of human energies into a satisfying and electrifying theatre experience??

ZOOM!!!!!!

And a bunch of background, sound cues, and special effects.  Whew!!!

Make sure you join us for our FREE benefit live stream of Macbeth on:

Friday February 19, 2021 at 7:30 pm at https://youtu.be/--WmiCA2Has
                                      and
Saturday February 20, 2021 at 3:00 pm at https://youtu.be/qScCJ8PptnI  

It won't cost you a cent but if you like it, please consider donating to The Actors Fund or Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids. You can also find the YouTube livestream links on our website at: www.thebardcastyoudick.com, or on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages!!

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Shakespeare and the interwebs  :)

An academic walked into a bar and sat down at the counter.  "Barkeep," he said "Pour me a stiff one. I've had a hard day." "What's the matter, friend?" said the barkeep. "Well," said the academic, "this morning's class was all about the life of Shakespeare himself. This afternoon's class will be all about his poetry. Things are going from Bard to Verse!!!"

(Ba dum dum.)

Okay, maybe that's not as good a pun as most of Will's, although there are some that groan worthy, but we can't help it - we're paronomasiacs.  

(You'll learn what that is in this episode.)

Make sure you join us for our FREE benefit live stream of Macbeth on Friday February 19, 2021 at 7:30 pm and Saturday February 20, 2021 at 3:00 pm.  It won't cost you a cent but if you like it, please consider donating to The Actors Fund or Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids. You can find the YouTube livestream link on our website at: 

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Or, on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages!!

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Episode Sources:

Shakespeare, Wikipedia, and the rest of the interwebs  :)

The well known American author Susan Vreeland was correct - art begets art!!!

On the heels of our Film Shakespeare series - here is our longest episode so far, comprising even MORE stuff that is based on, or inspired by, the works of our friend Will!!!

His plays have given birth to SOOOOO MUCH ART!!!!!

We can tell you this.... 

Shakespeare AIN'T GOING NOWHERE, folks, and this episode proves that indisputably.  



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Episode Sources:

Wikipedia and the rest of the interwebs  :)