Georgian Shakespeare ... might work! Some of the funny bits and rhyming couplets are only funny or rhyme if you say them with a Midlands/Birmingham inflection (as in the Elephants graveyard joke - Posh elephant:~ Did you come here to die? Brummie elephant:~ No, I came here yester die.).

I like the idea of MacBeth asking 'Es thes a dayger Ah see bufour mey, ets hayndul towourud ma haynd?'

(I can't do a Georgia accent, sorry...)

The whole play has been updated for this production, using hip-hop artists and MOBO*. I can see the political irony of having a black actress 'white up' to play the archetypal WASP* and think it could be very enlightening - but I can also see that an awful lot of people in this area could see it as a) a savage dig at the Queen, bordering on treason and b) another excuse to blame 'blacks for coming over here and taking all our jobs' (which is shite and not my opinion before anyone jumps on me, but unfortunately IS the opinion of a lot of my neighbourhood).

It's a play I'd love to see, but probably won't because much as I like MOBO, hip-hop and garage are just so not my bag.

LTS

* For those not sure:~ MOBO = Music Of Black Origin and WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.