What people are saying about us
Here's what people have written about what we do.
The Nickel Shakespeare Girls captivated audiences better than anyone else performing at the Folger Shakespeare birthday celebration [April 27, 2008]. Their energy and savvy revved viewers of all ages. I hope Folger invites NSG back soon - and that the performance on Sunday results in other DC area invites.
-- Jim Bovard, www.jimbovard.com
[T]he Nickel Shakespeare Girls are preparing to pounce. Three young women in calico knickers and green kerchiefs, they approach and ask customers to name any of Shakespeare’s plays. They proceed to perform a bit from that play while doing acrobatic stunts. Most patrons ask for Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet.
Know-it-alls ask for King John or Timon of Athens. “Dueling Pucks” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a favorite routine, where two of them race to recite the speech the quickest, all while flying through the air or balanced on their heads. All of this for a nickel, or more: They even accept “paper money, although we don’t know what it’s for.”
Also by the code of the trouper: they perform in rain and wind and mud without complaint. In a downpour one day, when many patrons flee for shelter, they continue their handstands, they continue to recline on the wet ground to reenact, appropriately enough, a scene from The Tempest.
-- Renaissance Clan by Richard Butner
You've never seen Shakespeare like this before. They're wild and wonderful. Shakespeare like he never intended it to be because it's so much better than he ever did it!!
Nickel Shakespeare Girls [are a troupe] whose rendition of full contact, cardio Shakespeare can best be described as getting a shotgun hit off a crack pipe (their stage act includes normal Shakespearian performances as well, just in case you wander by their stage and wonder what *I* was smoking when I wrote this).
-- Will Paisley, Pubmaster at the Virginia Renaissance Faire
Acrobatics, balancing, and flawless recitation of Shakespeare.