Taffety Punk's Bootleg Shakespeare is like 'having an affair with a play'
Taffety Punk company member Marcus Kyd's explanation for how Bootleg Shakespeare began is very simple: "It was initially a dare." The way Bootleg Shakespeare works, for the uninitiated, is as follows: Members of Taffety Punk Theatre Company select a Shakespeare play. Willing and able actors get copies of the script a couple months in advance. They are to memorize their lines, but under no circumstances are they to me…