Love's Labour's Lost (micro-review)
Jun. 8th, 2005 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI went to the ART production of Love's Labour's Lost, as adapted by Robert Bella. Very much adapted, into a kind of 50s cabaret, complete with musical numbers (The Lady Is a Tramp, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, and so on). And though it left me wanting to see an unadapted version, just to see how much changed, it worked. Very campy, but it worked. I enjoyed the costumes, complete with color coordination (not only did each girl have her own color (through all the costume changes, including dresses, swimsuits, and gowns), but the matching guy had the same color accessories, including socks).
It's a reasonably stupid plot (a vow to avoid women, fast, not sleep much, spend all one's time studying, stuff like that, when one is head of state doesn't seem feasible), but done as a farce (complete with subplots in the lower classes), I suppose it's vaguely supportable. Silly and fun, definitely.
Oh, and this was my first time at Zero Arrow, which just opened this year (or late last year?) in Harvard Square, across the street from a building I lived in years ago, where there used to be a vacant lot. It's a pretty building. The theatre space is large enough to have a good-sized audience, but flexible enough to do a variety of things (more black box than anything else).
It's a reasonably stupid plot (a vow to avoid women, fast, not sleep much, spend all one's time studying, stuff like that, when one is head of state doesn't seem feasible), but done as a farce (complete with subplots in the lower classes), I suppose it's vaguely supportable. Silly and fun, definitely.
Oh, and this was my first time at Zero Arrow, which just opened this year (or late last year?) in Harvard Square, across the street from a building I lived in years ago, where there used to be a vacant lot. It's a pretty building. The theatre space is large enough to have a good-sized audience, but flexible enough to do a variety of things (more black box than anything else).