Shakespeare & Christina Anderson’s Madcap Update Shines by Kim Waldron “Comedy of Errors” is guaranteed fun; I laughed a lot. It’s a Play on Shakespeare co-production—they’re the people who hire writers to go over a Shakespeare play line by line to change out-of-date terms to words we use today. The modern writers faithfully keep…
Barrett & Stevens Turn Renaissance Rome into Punk-Rock London by Rachel Norby Amazingly, “It’s True, It’s True, It’s True” takes its dialogue from a 1612 rape trial in Renaissance Rome. Apart from torture by thumbscrews, the young woman’s accusation that she has been raped could be a dramatization of a trial for rape in…
Ava Roy Adapts the Bard to Seaside Civil War Landmark by A.J. Jefferson “And what seem’d corporal melted / As breath into the wind…” A blustery Pacific gale buffets us at We Players’ “Macbeth” as we huddle together below that engineering marvel, the Golden Gate Bridge. At Fort Point, a Civil War monument, traffic…
Eddie Izzard Plays All 23 Roles in Hamlet, Brilliantly by Jenyth Jo Precision without pretension: gifted actor Eddie Izzard brings great joy to our beloved Hamlet. From the be-bop jazz entry music to the closing scene, the comic performs 23 roles with flair and gender fluidity. The Eddie super fan to my left and…