[3] The gang participates in a play entitled The Gladiator's Dilemma written, produced and directed by the wife of Kennedy the Cop.

The badly written play goes comically wrong as the young actors forget their lines, miss their cues, and deal with unwieldy props and costumes.

The audience members, unruly teenage boys, mercilessly heckle the actors and torment them by throwing food.

Shivering Shakespeare was the final Our Gang comedy directed by Robert A. McGowan, who was billed as "Anthony Mack" to differentiate himself from his uncle, Robert Francis McGowan, who was the Our Gang series' producer and senior director.

The younger McGowan would remain a part of the Our Gang unit as a writer for the rest of its existence, even after the series was sold to MGM in 1938.