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Literary scholar and porn master Dr. Waldorf “Stinky” Emerson-Biggins (rumored to be a distant relative of Leonard Pyth-Garnell from the classic “Bad Cinema” feature on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) takes you on an enlightening, informative, and ultimately revealing journey, on stage and behind the scenes of the smash off-broadway hit LIVE NUDE SHAKESPEARE.
If you thought that the only things missing from SPINAL TAP were Shakespearean soliloquies and naked women, then LIVE NUDE SHAKESPEARE is for you!
An all-female troupe of actors will give a naked performance of Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” in Prospect Park next month. The live nude girl group will bring the provocative performance to the park’s Music Pagoda for four free performances on Sept. 7–10. The show’s male director says that the stripped-down show is designed to promote body positivity — but he also knew that using unclad actors would create some conversation.
This is an all-woman, fully nude, abridged adaptation of William Shakespeare’s final play The Tempest, performed in part to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. Produced by the (they go by Topless Book Club for short), this is the first of two consecutive performances.
They chose Shakespeare because, as co-director Alice Mottola points out: “You can’t argue the script sucked.” Each character in The Tempest, they say, is fighting to find the freedom to live out their identity – Mottola says it deals with “confinement versus freedom, being yourself and becoming who you are.
