Word: antipholus
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...music that would make old Will squirm: Aegeon's plea for a stay of execution is accompanied by the Beatles' Help!, and the pursuit of a portly servant is enlivened with Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls. An overhead video shows the screaming crowds in Godzilla as the actors chase Antipholus around the classroom. "Shakespeare's fun," Esquith says. "And they learn tons of vocabulary...
...twins-one the servant and one the master-are separated in a shipwreck during infancy. Their father/master, Aegean, dedicates his life to reuniting his splintered family. To complicate matters, he arrives in the forbidden city of Ephesus, for which he is sentenced to die. That very day, his son Antipholus (Ari Appel '03) arrives, similarly searching for his brother who, conveniently enough, is also named Antipholus. Thus the father, his twin sons and their twin servants-both named Dromio-are all thrown together within a city long associated with the magic arts. What could be simpler...
...Though he quickly disappears, the high spirited melodrama of his performance hangs in the air throughout the first act. The plot develops humorously (if predictably) through a series of mistaken identities and mixed motivations. As Adriana (Brydie Andrews '01) tries to reclaim her rightful husband, she takes the wrong Antipholus and...well...ahem. When the visiting Antipholus meets Adriana's sister Luciana (Randi Zuckerberg '03), there's enough chemistry between them to start a pharamcuticals coroporation. Their "This Can't Be Love" duet is sweetly charming and a refreshing departure from the madcap hijinks of larger numbers...
...excerpted from the plays. The scenes were well-selected, but most of the scenes which involved more than one actor fell prey to the common Shakespeare performance problem of speeding. This habit was especially pernicious in an excerpt from The Comedy of Errors, in which the two actors portraying Antipholus and Dromio rushed and tumbled through their lines so fast that the bawdy jokes (as well as much of the sense of the scene) left the audience in the dust...
...only real problem with the acting, or more appropriately, with the direction, is a tendency towards too much chaos--it gets a little ridiculous near the end of the play when the entire cast is stampeding across the stage to escape from the knife-wielding Antipholus of Syracuse...