TIMON OF ATHENS @ COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE

Posted on November 1, 2012 by SEAN CLANCY Email

Just when you thought there couldn’t be another vaguely Occupy-flavored modernization of a Shakespeare classic, well, there’s another vaguely Occupy-flavored modernization of a Shakespeare classic. Tonight’s National Theater Live broadcast of Timon of Athens, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, features a be-suited Simon Russell Beale as the titular spendthift-turned-cynical misanthrope.

So kind of like The Lion King, except for the prostitutes and class issues and gold-financed armies and actually never mind.

[Thu 11.1.12. 290 Harvard St., Brookline. 7pm/18+/$17-$20. @thecoolidge. coolidge.org]

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"Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light." - Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece" "I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture." - Shakespeare, "Last Will and Testament."

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