No one even understands their own lines

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2014)

Have you ever seen a bad TV actor pretending to be a bad stage actor? Flat, overloud delivery, incorrect emphasis, with a kind of fake British accent, but utterly disconnected from the meaning of what they were saying? Lines declaimed rather than feelingly spoken?
That is what we have here. Just an awful raw butchery of the Bard.
I have seen a lot of experimental Shakespeare, including a brilliant sarcastic, zoot-suited version of Troilus and Cressida at the Folger, and an Idaho Shakespeare "sixties Hippy" version of Midsummer Night's dream, I do like the idea of what they were attempting. Unfortunately, they gathered actors/actresses who were not up to the job. The worst rendition of any Shakespeare I have ever seen outside of awful Merchant of Venice in the local Shakespeare festival in Boise Idaho back in 1999.
I truly do not believe that any of the actors understood even half of what they were supposed to be saying.