Saturday, October 13, 2007
PPT cast working too hard at 'Comedy of Errors'
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "Hoping to open the Pittsburgh Public Theater's 33rd season with a flourish, Producing Artistic Director Ted Pappas has pulled out all the stops."
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This is one of Shakespeare's most difficult comedies to do well, because it is so absolutely absurd, you really do have to completely emerse yourself in the world of the play and suspend your beliefs. In my opinion, Shakespeare's comedies are difficult to perform really well when there is too much altered, because so much of the comedy is already written into the show. If you don't rework or overwork the piece, and can achieve that level of convincing the audience, than the laughs should come themselves. Granted there's room for interpretation, gesture, staging, but often farses like Comedy of Errors are so full of puns and jokes that too much else can really ruin it.
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