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"Fakespeare Players" Appear At Inner Harbor
 To wash, or not to wash." That was the question when Washington College's Royale Fakespeare Players "madlibbed" the Bard during a performance at the Baltimore Inner Harbor in April. The troupe of actors performed scenes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and other plays, with the assistance of audience members gathered at the outdoor amphitheater.
"We have a lot of fun with Shakespeare using madlibs and parodies," said Mindy Beers '01, general manager of the troupe of drama majors. "We collect words from the audience in the traditional madlib party game fashion. Then our actors have to fill in the blanks using these words in a traditional Shakespearean scene. The results are always unexpected and hilarious."
The Royale Fakespeare Players was founded by Lindsay Krieg '00 in 1998 as a way to make Shakespeare more enjoyable and more accessible to the public. Since then, the Players have performed on campus, at local schools and at various public events and festivals.
"The famous balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet might not appeal to most people at first, but when we re-script it for a college lacrosse player enamored with a sorority girl, well, suddenly Shakespeare doesn't seem so distant from our time," said Beers.
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