With a running time of nearly an hour, this production presents a clean, professional-sounding drama full of inventive voices, creative sound effects, catchy songs, and subtle Shakespeare jokes.
The entertainment factor is definitely present. The voices, song lyrics, and dialogues are witty and farcical, at times echoing the Bard's own penchant for ludicrous word play. One of the things I most appreciated was the writers' willingness to let some of their jokes slip by quietly. I noticed this when a crack about Francis Bacon in the opening scene unexpectedly left me chortling: the line makes sense to those familiar with the Shakespeare authorship question but passes too quickly to confuse most listeners. Such moments lend a dimension of subtlety to the drama.
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