A Comedy of Errors is Human
Jun. 25th, 2008 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoStill no photos. Our first show was the Comedy of Errors, performed as light operetta in the old western tradition. As in there were lassos and six shooters and wily Chinamen and snake oil salesmen. The plot suffers (as in all presentations of this work) from requiring that the stupidest people in the world be assembled in one place to make the plot work.
As befits a show of this nature, there were a number of 'meta' moments, aided greatly by the addition of a Chorus in the classical Greek sense. The script was slapped around until it was dizzy; the sacred Words of The Bard were monkeyed with. And I was pretty okay with that. The second act lost some of the focus, despite a classic Benny Hill/Buster Keaton chase scene that thankfully did not become tiresome despite its length. However, I believe this performance may be the most enjoyable I've seen--better even than my previous favorite, performed by the Flying Karamazov brothers.
As befits a show of this nature, there were a number of 'meta' moments, aided greatly by the addition of a Chorus in the classical Greek sense. The script was slapped around until it was dizzy; the sacred Words of The Bard were monkeyed with. And I was pretty okay with that. The second act lost some of the focus, despite a classic Benny Hill/Buster Keaton chase scene that thankfully did not become tiresome despite its length. However, I believe this performance may be the most enjoyable I've seen--better even than my previous favorite, performed by the Flying Karamazov brothers.