![]() ![]() ![]() One such dossier reads: “Charlestown Working Theater (CWT) is a cover operation, known on the inside as "Criminals With Theatrics." They are responsible for importing and harboring some of the most fiendish theatrical criminals in Europe, in addition to nurturing criminal minds in the local scene.” Daniel Berger-Jones and Bob Mussett in "From Denmark With Love." (Omar Robinson) For a few weeks, as the crowdsourcing campaign on indiegogo flourished, donors received their own James Bond villain name and backstory posted on the page. If you’re a fan of Vaquero Playground on Facebook (and I suggest you should be, if only for the regular dance breaks posted on the page), you have seen the updates throughout the process, including the fundraising updates. With his first draft completed about a week later, he had launched a development process that included three readings. ![]() Almost immediately, King launched into the research process: Over the Thanksgiving holiday, he watched all 23 Bond films in eight days. Indeed, he’s adept at wearing characters like they are costumes, as witnessed by his quick-changing multi-character performance in The Lyric Stage Company’s “Stones in his Pockets.”īy the end of the night for the 15-minute reading as part of “Something Rotten,” John had 15 people asking when he would make a full-length production. He still plays both parts, partly because King loves how much fun it is to watch him work so hard. “Who in Boston would play Bond?” King said laughing, “Daniel Berger-Jones, boom.” Out of necessity (they only had three actors playing seven roles) in the 15-minute reading, Daniel Berger-Jones played both Hamlet and Claudius. With that memory bouncing around in his head, suddenly “Hamlet” seemed a lot like a spy movie. He recalled one of his earliest memories of storytelling, watching James Bond movies with his grandfather. He travelled to Alaska to be with family, re-reading Act II on the long trip home. In the fall of 2011, Whistler in the Dark invited several small theater to take an act of “Hamlet “ and rewrite it for their special event “Something Rotten This Way Comes.” The timing was hard for King, who had just lost both grandparents. King is the managing artistic director (and self-described mirth strategist) for Vaquero Playground, but it was another small theater company that provided the springboard for this theatrical collage, which plays May 10 to June 1 at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. King says he thinks of his mash-up, “From Denmark with Love,” this way: “Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the Christmas Tree and James Bond is the decoration.” Facebook Email Daniel Berger-Jones in "From Denmark With Love." (Omar Robinson) ![]()
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