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Episode NotesIt's 2023, so we're going back through the highs and lows of 2022. Let's talk best and worst films, MMVP, and future resolutions!CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the show on PatreonTheme music by Riley Alle
Episode NotesIt's Christmas Time on Avant-Bard which means we "get to" watch a Christmas rom-com based on Shakespeare. Today we're tackling Much Ado about Nothing with Much Ado About Christmas! Are we filled with the Holiday Shakespirit? CAST
Episode NotesGetting our November tradition out at the last second! You know we had to cover a Titus Andronicus before the feasting month ended! So we're here this week with The Hungry. How will this Tamora-focused adaptation strike our collec
Episode NotesWe love covering new films that fit our shtick, so we're doing back-to-back Romeo and Juliet so we can cover Rosaline! What's this classic like through the eyes of the forgotten first love? Let's find out. CAST: Megan Scharlau a
Episode NotesWhat's a Spooptober Month without a zombie love story? Any other Spooptober Month. But not this one! This one has Warm Bodies, a twee-zombie-love-tale inspired by Romeo & Juliet. Let's dig in. CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew Jam
We're back! It's Spooktober month, so how could we stay away? We're back with more Akira Kurosawa; this time, Throne of Blood (his take on Macbeth)!CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the show on PatreonTheme music by Riley
Episode NotesEpisode Notes a play we love with ACTORS WE LOVE!? Yes! King of Texas! A pretty ambitious tv movie if we do say so ourselves. A western adaptation of King Lear that we couldn't wait another week to cover. But how do we feeeeeeel?
A kickstarted Julius Caesar? Set in the post apocalypse? It's more likely than you think! Well, I mean, there's one. It's Ambition's Debt. CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the show on PatreonTheme music by Riley Allen-
Marquez promised it and we're covering it: Romeo and Juliet SEALED WITH A KISS. It's like Romeo and Juliet but they're seals. Just like Shakespeare.... never intended. CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the show on Patreon
Episode NotesThis month, we're focusing on something we've wanted to discuss ever since we started Avant-Bard: hit Canadian television program SLINGS AND ARROWS! In the last episode of July, we're going to discuss Season 1 Episodes 4-6 and ho
Episode NotesThis month, we're focusing on something we've wanted to discuss ever since we started Avant-Bard: hit Canadian television program SLINGS AND ARROWS! Wait... it's not a huge hit? Well, that's a mistake. Maybe after this, you'll
Episode NotesOn our quest to cover every play by Shakespeare, we're tackling Coriolanus today! Does this play work almost better in a modern setting? Is it gay? Yes. Yes, it's gay. CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the sh
Episode NotesIt's time for us to cover the oldest film on the podcast so far! All with the goal of crossing Two Gentlemen of Verona off our list! How will this silent film hold up to the bard's words? CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James Ma
Episode NotesA new Macbeth direct adaptation? A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ADAPTATION? WITH OSCAR NOMINATIONS?! AND DENZEL WASHINGTON?!!!!!???CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the show on PatreonTheme music by Riley Allen- htt
Episode NotesSpring has sprung and we think we're adding a new Shakespeare play to the catalog with Winter's Tale! This is totally Shakespeare. It's an adaptation for sure. With Horse.CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the
Episode NotesWe're still on a musical kick! This week we're doing a deep dive into Steven Spielberg's West Side Story. A recent film? YOU KNOW IT! We have a LOT to say about this Romeo and Juliet adaptation. Don't you?Mambo Orchestra Link CA
Episode NotesWe might have missed Valentine's Day, but we're still in the mood for love! Kind of. At least it's queer? That's right, we're talking Were the World Mine! A gay musical! Midsummer Night's Dream! But... will we like it?CAST: Megan
Episode NotesKeeping our promise to cover plays we haven't before, we're watching Kenneth Branagh's film version of As You Like It. Will we enjoy his setting or call him out for Orientalism? I'm sure you can guess. CAST: Megan Scharlau and Ma
Episode NotesWe're starting this year with some sweet nostalgia! These two theatre nerds grew up with the Boy Genius Jimmy Neutron and NEEDED to cover his school play MACBETH... IN SPACE!CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport
Episode NotesCAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the show on PatreonTheme music by Riley Allen- https://rileyallen59.wixsite.com/musicSFX: "Cheering 3", "Gasp 3", "Magic Turning Spells Casting", "Super Short Drum Roll with
Episode NotesIn our second annual episode of What the Dickens!, a sub-podcast of Avant-Bard, we're discussing Scrooged as a cynical adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol. CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupp
Episode NotesIt's the holiday season! What Shakespeare play could fit Christmas spirits better than... Romeo and Juliet? But feuding Christmas Tree farms? Okay then!CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the show on PatreonT
Episode NotesThis Thanksgiving week, we thought we'd bring Shakespeare's most thematic play for the season: Titus Andronicus. So few adaptations exist of this gory work; is Julie Taymor's TITUS enough to satisfy? Or will we be full up?CW: dis
Episode NotesSoaring through space and time, Megan and Marquez have found themselves in the future of the past! Can the magic of Morbius hold up to Prospero's books? CAST: Megan Scharlau and Matthew James MarquezSupport the show on PatreonT
Episode NotesOnce upon a time, a Shakespearean horror anthology was offered to the Lifetime Network The only thing more frightening than their pilot of Midsummer Night's Dream? Trying to connect its plot to the original.CAST: Megan Scharlau a
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