Taking 'Measure' of Shakespeare's Language - Elevator Repair Service deconstructs the Bard's problem play
Elevator Repair Service deconstructs the Bard's problem play---In 2013, Nicholas Hytner, the then artistic director of London's National Theatre, wrote an op-ed in which he confessed that Shakespeare perplexes him. John Collins, the artistic director of the Obie-winning experimental theatre troupe Elevator Repair Service, agrees: the Bard is ridiculously hard. Not eat-your-spinach hard or just-concentrate hard; these…