Billy Shakespeare
Billy Shakespeare: Writer and director Deborah Voorhees calls her film, Billy Shakespeare a modern Shakespearean comedy.
The writer not only liberally uses the Bard’s improbable comic devices such as the love triangle, mistaken identity, and the disguised heroine but Voorhees also melds today’s conversational speak with Shakespeare’s elevated and often [bawdy] vernacular.
This contemporary comedy of errors seeks to answer: What if Shakespeare never lived in the 1500s but lived in L.A. today peddling his screenplays?
Renaissance and modern sensibilities clash when an all-male stage version of Macbeth and the misogynistic low-budget film The Taming of the Shrew open simultaneously. The combustion makes “The Bard” the most controversial screenwriter in Hollywood.
The all New Mexican staffed & cast film will premiere at The Misty Moon Gallery in London this May.
Contact writer, director, producer Deborah Voorhees, at deborah.voorhees1961@gmail.com for more information about domestic screenings and distribution.
For upcoming “Acting for Film” workshops for students in Ruidoso and London contact:
Voorhees Films
131 Cedar Crest, Nogal, NM 88341
214.982.1787
deborah.voorhees1961@gmail.com
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