What I liked
Not much! Cute CONCEPT, but,,,! Once in awhile a contemporary political joke would pop up, usually at the expense of President Trump, but nobody seemed to notice!
What I didn't like
No programs provided (once a theatre essential), so all of the one-dozen cast, mostly men, remain safely anonymous. (Fringe listing = almost no help, either.)
Was there a DIrector? If so, why did he allow everybody to S-H-O-U-T, even when they’re standing right next to you? Only two people were at the opposite end of that spectrum: the girl who played “Cleo” and the guy who played “Titus” were HARD to hear and HARDER to understand!
My overall impression
I mid-June 1963 I was at the NYC premiere of CLEOPATRA, which cost $40-milllion, ran 243 minutes, and ended @ 100AM! I could never have imagined that 63 years LATER, almost exactly to the day(!), I’d watch a dozen youngsters (“20-30”) race and shout their way through the entire same story in 97 minutes in a WeHo garage, and it would SEEM longer! For today’s audience, NOT familiar with this Roman/Egyptian saga and its many, many now-obscure characters, it must all seem like a lot of “…Sound and Fury, Signifying….???”
