Glad, Jeanie, that someone else feels like that, and , paul, lack of seriousness is part of it.

And, Raggy, all for thew Bard reaching a larger audience, and it'd be good to have the real thing i.e.Shakespear, as well as adaptions, i.e. not- so Shakespeare.

I wonder if Catters are under about 45 and don't remember Plays on tv.

Thewre are loads of other names - Wilde, Albee, Anouilh, Ionesco, Shaw, Aristophanes, and has anyone else seen the "productions" of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townwomen's Guild Dramatic Society? Their Macbeth is the funniest play I've ever seen. Those names are just a sprinkling of famous names. Plays are a wonderful treasury.