A Company of Fools is Ottawa’s longest running independent professional Shakespeare company:our mandate is to produce innovative,entertaining and accessible shows based on the works of William Shakespeare.

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    Richard III in BouffonRichard III in Bouffon
    (Feb-Mar 2008)

    Of all of Shakespeare’s villains,Richard III stands as one of the most gleefully evil. Hunchbacked and crook-armed,Richard acts evil because he is perceived as evil,and he does so with a glee unrivalled by any of Shakespeare’s other villains. Who better to portray a story about monsters than a troupe of monsters? This darkly satiric portrayal of Shakespeare’s classic history will make you shiver with laughter as a troupe of evil,deformed creatures twist your minds as much as their own bodies have been twisted. Plus you get to throw things at the actors on stage. What could be more perfect?