Time Out New York said of All the World's a Grave, "We haven't experienced this much haughtiness since college." But it was college!

The Bates Department of Theater recently mounted a "new" "Shakespearean" production by playwright John Reed. The playwright himself traveled to Bates from his home in New York to see the production, which had never before been so fully mounted on stage.

The wildly irreverent collage of tragedies featured King Lear's daughter, Juliet, who has eloped with Hamlet, whose mother is Lady Macbeth...and that's only the beginning.

Costume Designer Farrell embraced the challenge of dressing so many of the Bard's tragic characters all on the same stage. "The play is a designer's dream. It was wonderful to work with the team of professionals and Bates students assembled to mount this ambitious production. We're already discussing plans to create other partnerships between Figures of Speech and Bates Theater."