"Drunk people start doing strange things when Shakespeare starts occurring right at their feet."

So says actor Fred Jones about the scenes from Shakespeare he and his fellow actor, Paul Marino, perform on New York City subways.

Let's be honest here--no one really thinks they're any different than your usual New York City subway rider. Men wearing costumes? Screaming Renaissance English? Thrashing about on the floor of the subway car?

Sounds like a usual Friday night in New York.




*Can we just point out that this photo from the New York Times shows a subway passenger, on the right, casually taking a call on his cellphone, as if there isn't a guy openly weeping and holding a pair of maraschino cherries (?) in front of a wannabe Dumbledore.

Photo: New York Times