Do we need Shakespeare or not?
Do we need Shakespeare or not?

შექსპირის 66-ე სონეტს კითხულობს საქართველოს სახალხო არტისტი თენგიზ არჩვაძე
66– Shakespeare’s sonnet is read by people’s Artists of Georgia Tengiz Archvadze

აგრეთვე გამოყენებულია ფრაგმენტები რადიოსპექტაკლიდან „დაუმთავრებელი პიესა“ ნინო კობერიძის, გიზო სიხარულიძის, გოგა გორგასანიძის, გია ჯოხაძის, ქეთი ჩაჩუას და თემურ ხუციშვილის მონაწილეობით.
Excerpts from the radio play “Unfinished Play” with the participation of Nino Koberidze, Gizo Sikharulidze, Goga Gorgasanidze, Gia Jokhadze, Keti Chachua and Temur Khutsishvili are also used.

კომპოზიციის ავტორი და რეჟისორი ზურაბ კანდელაკი
Author and director of the composition Zurab Kandelaki
ხმის რეჟისორი – ბაკო ხვიჩია
The sound director – Bako Khvichia
გაწეული დახმარებისთვის მადლობას ვუხდით ვანო ჯაფარიძეს.
We thank Vano Japaridze for his help.

აქვე გთავაზობთ კომპოზიციის ტექსტის თარგმანს ინგლისურ ენაზე
We offer an English translation of the text of the composition

Do we need Shakespeare or not?

Some kind of incomprehensible sounds in a place with music. Actors get together for audio recording.
D.J: (in broken English) I’d like to present…
TEACHER: It’s no good…listen! (in English, not pronouncing very well) I’d like to
present…repeat! (in English) Pre-sent!
TEACHER: It’s no good…listen!
I ACTOR: william shakespeare. 66-sonnet
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born…
SOUND RECORDER: : One… two…three…
SOUND ENGINEER: Enough! We are ready!
Music
I VOICE: “ What are you reading, my Lord? “
II VOICE: : “Word, words, words… “
I ACTOR: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm’d in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac’d,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgrac’d,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly—doctor-like—controlling skill,
And simple truth miscall’d simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:

EDITOR: We go on with our interactive poll. As a result of the poll we can determine the
principle of our further work! We remind you of our question: Do we need Shakespeare
today…
II ACTOR: “Oh, that this too sullied flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew.”
EDITOR: In modern radio besides you know that words take only thirty-two per cent of the whole
time. The rest is
Music. An excerpt from the operetta “Arshin Mal Alan”. Song Lyrics
There is money, I’ll go out!
If not, I’ll go to another!
EDITOR: Yes, it’s like this: words take only thirty-two per cent.
II ACTOR: O, God, God! How weary, stale,
flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.”
EDITOR: The interactive poll is going on. According to the latest data, to the regret of some people,
Shakespeare is losing!
II ACTOR: “tis unweeded garden that grows to seed.”
Music.
PRODUCER: Just mind that it’s me who pays money, me! Me and my pals…We must attract
advertisements…All our programs must meet the updated demands, they should
cater our listeners’ demands!
Fragment from the musical “cabaret”
D.J.: While they are doing it I’ll tell you about the results of our interactive poll… So 72 per cent are
indifferent…as for Shakespeare… Taking into consideration the interactive poll results, in a
few minutes we’ll offer you a new entertaining talk-show! To our great joy we’d like to tell
you that the members of the studio “Loto” will take part in the new program.
I ACTOR: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm’d in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac’d,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgrac’d,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly—doctor-like—controlling skill,
And simple truth miscall’d simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:
Music.
TALK SHOW PRESENTER: Now I’ll tell you a joke. Believe me, if you have heard it once, you are sure to laugh! If you haven’t, you will still laugh by all means! But the pre requisite of our success is that even though you don’t feel like laughing, still you must laugh!
D.J.: : Laugh! Laugh! What are you waiting for!
Laugh.
I ACTOR: Tir’d with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save that, to die, I leave my love alone…
Music plays with the text: Buy, Buy, Buy, Buy something …