recite a Shakespeare soliloquy in front of lots of people who aren't expecting it (like in an airport terminal, or in a movie theatre line)

I love shakespeare, and i would so do this. I’ve done similar things though like singing all the songs I know (loudly) in line at the empire state building.

i’ve always wanted to do this.

I never thought of doing something like this before. It sounds like a lot of fun. Definitely an adrenaline rush for me.

Which one can I do?!? There’s so many soliloquys out there, how can you chose one that is recognizable but that the world hasn’t already been saturated with.
In my AS-Level Enlish Lit. course we’re doing King Lear and I’ve also read Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet in school and Othello outside of school.
Could do one from one of those. Any ideas world?

It was on a bus full of people and they kind of stared at me. I’m not sure if it was in appreciation or horror. Maybe it was akin to them to the experience of watching a train wreck. But they applauded when I was done and asked me to do something else.

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Maybe they were just bored and I was a distraction.

Well at first I was just doing the Holy Hand Grenade bit from Monty Python, but after that was all cleared up I started to get serious.
So I wait for someone to come in with a copy of Hamlet in my hand, and then finally the unsuspecting victim enters…

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more!”

And y’know what he said to me? He asked me if that was a line from Billy Madison, which, technically, it is. Either way, goal complete. Sorry Dodd.

I decided that I really want to do this goal, but there’s not a whole lot of motivation to make the necessary preparations. That is, there wasn’t before now. I’ve challenged myself to complete this goal by the thirtieth of this month or else I’ll be subject to a penalty. If I don’t recite a Shakespeare passage or sonnet by the end of this month, I will maliciously devour my co-worker Dodd’s ass [shown above] with primitive dinnerware. Not too classy, I’ll admit, but I see no other way.

So, I have a copy of Hamlet, a voice recorder with a six foot microphone cord, and twelve hours in which unsuspecting parsons come willingly into my office.

The clock is ticking…

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I did this in London with my cousin who was an actor- on the Tube, after partaking of a little wine (`for the stomach’s sake you understand’). We both got quite loud and impassioned, as you do- and the funny thing is that Londoners can be so bloody restrained and closed off- but after we finished they clapped!!!
CLAPPED???!!!! It felt like the strangest reaction ever because we thought they’d probably call the ol’ bill on us…...

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I’m thinking of doing the “Alas poor Yorick I knew him Horatio” bit. Hmmm. What say you? I saw the Animaniacs doing that part on YouTube (nostalgia!) and I thought it would actually be pretty cool… Only problem is I’d need
a. A skull, or
b. A willing friend
and whenever I start doing weird things in public my friends all run off and pretend they don’t know me. Aw. Maybe I’ll find someone willing to play dead for me.