Breaking Bard

Written by Gus Krieger
Produced by The Porters of Hellsgate
Directed by Drina Durazo

PLAYING THROUGHOUT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL JUNE 6TH THROUGH THE 28TH, AT THEATRE ASYLUM ON SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD’S THEATRE ROW

Having surpassed the halfway point in Shakespeare’s canon with Othello, The Porters of Hellsgate are gearing up for the Hollywood Fringe Festival with their boldest and most daring work to date:

All 62 episodes of the hit television series Breaking Bad, presented in one hour, in Shakespearean verse.

BREAKING BARD posits a question critical to our culture: What if Breaking Bad had originally been written by The Bard himself? A sure treat for Breaking Bad fans and Shakespeare aficionados alike, this one act play offers up the most lamentable tragedy of Walter of Albuquerque: containing his treacherous plots, his pitiful murther, his tyrannical rise to power, and his most deserved death.

“For never was a tale more dark and quirky
Than this of Walter of Alb

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