Christopher Moore Plays the Fool with Litquake and A.C.T. July 24, 2010

Literature comes alive when treated as a spectator sport! Litquake in collaboration with the American Conservatory Theater presents a staged reading from acclaimed author Christopher Moore's bestselling novel Fool, his twisted and delirious revisit of Shakespeare's King Lear told from the perspective of the character Pocket the Fool. Helmed by A.C.T. director Mark Rucker, the reading will feature a cast of A.C.T. actors as well as the author himself as the narrator.

"Litquake is thrilled to be collaborating again with A.C.T., which is nationally known for theatrical productions that both honor tradition and embrace experimentation," says Litquake cofounder and co Executive Director Jane Ganahl. "Since Litquake believes that reading is a spectator sport, we're always looking for ways to make literature come alive, and doing a staged reading of Christopher Moore's 'Fool' pushes those boundaries in a dazzling way."

Given the lineage of Lear, it's only fitting that the reading be held at a Theater, in this case, the beautifully restored historic Brava Theater Center, formerly the York Theater vaudeville house. Attendees can expect an evening spotlighting gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming and treason. In addition to heights of profanity and vulgarity heretofore unexplored, there will be forays into nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and it is promised, the odd wank.

Originally published in February 2009, Christopher Moore's Fool was called a "wickedly good time," by the Christian Science Monitor, and even compared to the Mel Brooks film, Blazing Saddles, by The Washington Post.

"Exuberantly, tirelessly, brazenly profane, vulgar, crude, sexist, blasphemous and obscene. Compared to Moore's novel, even Mel Brooks' hilariously tasteless film Blazing Saddles appears a model of stately 18th-century decorousness." -The Washington Post

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