A local theater here in the DC area had a show tonight, "An Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon," at which one of the "creators" of the Klingon language, Marc Okrand, spoke.

He said that Alice has been translated into Klingon.

Has anyone ever heard it performed?

I'd love to hear it!!!

Yeah, me too. Found nothing by googling around, other than a couple of references to it.

So, armed with your interest, Mr. Guthrie, I've sent an email to the theater company asking them to ask Mr. Okrand (who is President of their Board) to email me or stop by the forums here if he'd rather do that. (I couldn't find an email for him.) Will post more if I hear more.

We'd like to hear it too! Maybe Arlo can do it in concert sometimes once they get the version to him.

Yeah, but in the Klingon version, the hero eats the gargage, cuts Obie in half.......and eats him too, bringing more reality to the "veins in my teeth" line. Not to mention "Kill, Kill, Kill!".
Yup, the Klingons take a whole other message and lesson from this classic than most of us earthlings.

And we've seen those Klingon girls too! Alice wouldn't be so nice this time around, and you could never get anything you wanted - or maybe you could! Hahahaha

"Klingon Girls Could Save The World" Yeah, maybe save it for dessert!!!

My money is on Alice's girls and Arlo.

Sassy

I wonder if littering and creating a nuisance are even crimes for Klingons?


mikey

I dread the Klingon orchestration.... Klingon opera is notorious throughout the Federation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gpWthAhgR4&feature=related

Or the folk version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2RbOEd8rPs&feature=related

And it's not really good for picking up earth women even if you're a hologram and she's a declawed Borg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Od7wNxwq8k&feature=related

But it's perfect for head butt drinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHVbUzmiRFQ&feature=related

The universal translator cannot approximate devious terran lyrics:

SoH ta'laHbe' tlhap [a] Doch SoH neH Daq [Alice's] [Restaurant]
yIt nIH Daq [it's] [around] [the] DoH
[Just] [a] bID [a] [mile] vo' [the] [railroad] [track]

http://www.mrklingon.org/

Yeah, those Klingon girls are tough, and liberated. They burned their bras long before earth girls did.........well, melted them really, they have those metalic Madonna kinda bras.

But some have their soft sides too when they are off duty.



This being a family blog...

No news on the Alice front, sadly. I dunno, Arlo, maybe you'd have better luck getting the info if you called Okrand or something -- he works at the National Captioning Institute and their number is 703-917-7600 . He probably gets too many strange inquiries from flaky fans like me . . . I could kick myself now for not asking about it at the time, but he was doing Q&A with George Takei and I felt like it'd be weird to sidetrack the discussion from Shax and ST to Alice. Oh well...

But, back to the opera subthread started by Len...the Klingon opera "u" premiered at The Hague a few weeks ago:

http://www.u-theopera.org/

and this NPR piece on it also includes what I guess is Okrand's standard line about Alice:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =103903810

Hmm...guess that would depend on what you wanted...