What I liked
Learned A LOT of Life Detail I didn’t know about Shakespeare, even as I struggled to keep up with the Speed and Volume at which it was performed!
What I didn't like
Would have welcomed a THIRD actor, a Man to play the many Men’s bit parts and relieve the monotony of Alessandra Manon shouldering “The Muse” (a full-time costarring role) AND All the Women’s bit parts AND All the Men’s bit parts too!
Would have been happier without all the gratuitous Modern Vulgarity and the unnecessary TDS reference.
Would have liked a slightly more leisurely pace—-85 minutes rather than 75? Invite a Director to give you an Objective Appraisal! It’s NOT a Race to the Finish!
My overall impression
If you’re steeped in Shakespeare when you walk into this show (9x,all@905Cole, all@ 9pm Fridays and Saturdays) you’re rightly ready for Colin Cox to smother you in Style with his folksy tales of The Bard. If NOT, beware!—-after 75 minutes I would rather have Read and Studied the dense Text than to have it performed AT me FASTER and LOUDER than a 50-seat house can support! (Maybe not: preview seats= mostly filled.) Seems to me to be Too Hip For The Room and (is it possible?) Too Sophisticated for unindoctrinated Fringe audiences too!.
