THE MODERN SHAKESPEARE - 2016, Room at the Corner
“The Modern Shakespeare” is a series of three shorts that imagine William Shakespeare’s challenges if he were a living, breathing playwright in the 21st century— navigating auto-correct, wooing a lover with a ballad and boom box, a poker game with his friends, Michelangelo and Beethoven. The deliberately crude animation style juxtaposed with the erudite content parallels the actual Shakespeare’s appeal to both upper and lower classes. (Episodes in full below.)