Shakespeare's Competitors w/Paul Savage

Why Is This Not a Movie? - A podcast by Mike Vago

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While Shakespeare was putting on some of the most revered theater in history at the Globe, across town the Red Bull Theater was putting on bawdy comedies, scandalous political satire, plays that were just the funny bits from other plays, and letting women perform on stage. London-based comedian Paul Savage takes us back to a 17th-century London where everyone was drunk all the time, everything stank to high heaven, and a scrappy troupe of actors broke all the rules in service of the most important rule of all — get butts in seats. While Paul's stuck not performing live during the pandemic, he's started a Kickstarter to fund his third book of comics. Get more info and chip in at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulsavagecomics/paul-savage-new-comics