The details of William Shakespeare’s life have scattered in the winds of time like so many of his folio pages. The good news is that this vacuum affords the wide berth of speculation.
And that inscrutability of Shakespeare, it turns out, is the makings of a highly entertaining, positively antic work of musical theater being performed now in Mount Pleasant.
It got started with a pair of Louisiana-born, theater-loving brothers, Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Around the mid-1990s, they dreamed up their own hilarious version of historical events and put those conjectures in musical form no less with sights on a new Broadway show…