Word: plot
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Sound familiar? It could be the plot from any one of innumerable comedies written by innumerable authors on the Continent and in Britain from the time of the Renaissance to beyond the Restoration...
...this revival, the bitterness and irony that should contribute to what little comedy has transcended the mist of the ages is lost in an atmosphere of comraderie. With cuckolding and a corrupt clergyman taken so casually by the performers, the plot of the play seems trivial...
Brett Barbaro is all too innocent for Callimaco. His "golly-gee" performance jars with the masterful seduction in which he involves himself. Barbaro reaches his most immature moments when he adopts the persona of a doctor to further his advances (a plot twist reminiscent of Moliere). It simply is not believable. And James Baker's portrayal of the stupid and foolish husband whose wife is the object of this intrigue is wooden and uninteresting...
...plot of The Frog Prince is familiar to any child who has grown up with The Brothers Grimm. A prince (Jeremy Dawson), soon to marry his beloved, strays onto the land of a hideous crone (Michelle Holdt). When he refuses to offer her his fresh-picked flowers, she turns him into a frog...
...subtitle of Ruddigore, the latest production of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, is "The Witch's Curse," but there is nothing evil about this charming operetta. With the help of a funny script, an engaging plot, excellent acting and singing, Ruddigore delivers an evening of great fun at the Agassiz Theater...