From a blogger today: "This trip (to NYC) afforded the opportunity to see two excellent productions, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Tempest. Both productions, while free, were more than just no cost—they were creative, provocative opportunities to think about issues and stories and laugh as well. Both companies that produced these shows understand that Shakespeare is more than anything else an entertainer, an exquisite, story-telling, fun-loving, crowd-pleasing entertainer. Both companies’ approaches to these plays were more passionate than academic. Neither play was about The Bard as “historical relic”—each play was about pleasing a crowd, offering an insight or two about humans, and making us revel in theatrical magic. The enthusiasm bubbled over in every moment of the two plays. Furthermore, each of these plays delighted a number of children and not just “grad students.” Both companies (The Public Theater and New York Classical Theater) know instinctively that if presented well and with love, children will devour hungrily the stories of the plays. Well, both audiences simply enjoyed the fun provided." john-jdl.blogspot/2013/08/so-what-does-35-get-you-for-food-in-new.html
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:50:32 +0000
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