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Hello readers, won't you have a seat while you take a gander at this podcast review?  Here, it's your favorite chair, just right and comfy for this chilly winter weather that's starting to settle in.  That's right, just settle in and make sure that you're comfortable enough that you won't want to jump and bolt the minute I mention that this podcast revolves around...






Don't run!

DON'T RUN!

No seriously, I locked the door from the outside so you're just going to hurt yourself.  Take a deep breath and we'll try to find some good points about this.

Does it help if the poetry in question was written by Shakespeare?  Eh?  You like the version of Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio, right?  That's a starting point!  What if I put up a funny video from the Reduced Shakespeare Company?



 How about if I tell you that since this is a podcast you don't have to read anything?  Okay, that seems to have taken away the fear in your eyes.  Let's take a look at The Shakespeare Sound.

Relevant Links:
The Ministry of Shakespeare Main Site!
RSS Feed!
Twitter!

Content Rating:  Seriously?  Clean.  It's people reciting Shakespeare, don't be such a baby.

Average Episode Length:  Three episodes selected at random give an average time of 24 minutes.

Drinking Game:  Ooh, for once Google returns a bevy of choices.  Here's what I got for you:

• The Contemporary Shakespeare Drinking Game
• Shakespeare's Sonnets Drinking Game
• My own suggestion?  Get a cask of malmsey and make a vague threat anytime someone asks you what's with the giant cask.  PROTIP:  do not actually drown anyone in the cask, ask that constitutes a party foul on your behalf.

Hosts Reggie Batusic and Dana Vagg want to make The Bard a part of your life.  These two people are earnest in their wish to bring Shakespeare to a new audience and to have it heard as the audience at the Globe Theater would have heard them.  I mean, seriously, they even wrote out their motivation for this project and I can't express how awesome that it.  I love their passion and you can hear it in The Shakespeare Sound.

We were inspired, so why not inspire?

THEY EVEN HAVE A MISSION.  I know I'm a font of sarcasm but I honestly love these two for what they're doing.  Vunderbar.

Reggie and Dana present a single snippet o' Shakespeare each episode.  Their process involves 3 separate readings of the piece.  There's the blank reading where they just say the words on the page, the exaggerated reading where sounds are brought out and played around with to discover how the piece should be read, and finally an interpreted reading that is much like how the piece would be performed on stage.


Release Schedule:  Monthly, but a warning for the possibility of spotty releases.  There's a good archive, it'll keep ya for a while. 

Music:  A little in the front, a little in the back.

Unintentionally Good Part:  When the post an "Old Word New" with the release of a podcast.  Nifty! 

Unintentionally Bad Part:  NOTHING.  Let these two delightful people read Shakespeare to you, dammit. 

Unrelated rating: Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. Volumnia in CORIOLANUS; 4: 

Sure!  Whatever you say, Shakespeare.