"You pick up a newspaper - you think it's today's paper - and you read it with interest. Then suddenly you realise that this is yesterday's paper, and it's of no interest at all. Why is this? The men and women who put the paper together are undoubtedly intelligent, they write well, yet what they have written is ninety percent dead the next day and the newspaper is only good to wrap up fish. What then is the difrerence between a page of yesterday's paper and a page of Shakespeare written hundreds of years ago? Why is Shakespeare not out of date?"

This quote from Peter Brook begins BlueForms' hour-long investigation into modern man's obsession with William Shakespeare and his work. Touching on our need for daily drama and connection, and then presenting a theory based on Joseph Campbell's ideas about heroes and myths, On Shakespeare is a bizarre, moving, antic, engrossing, and revealing essay on the theatre and its purpose.