Abe Robinson and Antoine DeJong
Gilbert & Sullivan do Macbeth
Abe Robinson and Antoine DeJong
Steve Rayburn, teacher of Junior English, submitted this nomination:
During our study of Macbeth, Abe and Antoine started speculating on how Gilbert and Sullivan would treat the story of Macbeth. Inspired by the witches, they penned "Three Little Hags from Hell," which I added to the web site at the time. Inspired, they then spent more class time -- and some of their own -- adapting other G & S scenes to the characters in the Scottish play. Included in their repertoire is "When a Murderer's not Engaged in his Employment," "When Macbeth Bares his Steel," "Oh joy...uh, SORROW unforeseen!," "For I am a Scottish King," and several others.This is funny, creative, out-of-the-box stuff that connects two seemingly disparate items. After all, how many high school kids, even at Uni, even know who Gilbert and Sullivan ARE, much less know them well enough to pen dead-on parodies? They may not win, but I think it is great!