Acclaimed Bedlam Theater To Mash Up Shakespeare For Irreverent New Media Series
Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Bedlam, the small, critically acclaimed Off Broadway theater company known for its clever, spare and unconventional stagings of classics like The Crucible and Saint Joan, is developing Bedlam: The Series, an eight-episode New Media mash-up of Shakespeare plays using the Bard’s own language.The series, to be released on an as-yet-unannounced platform, begins filming this month in New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley.Written by Bedlam artistic director Eric Tucker and Musa Gurnis and directed by Tucker, the series will combine characters and plots from King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice and other plays in an all-new story.