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Bard on the Beach returns this summer with a pair of rom coms that couldn’t be more different from one another.
Bard on the Beach is diving into shoulder pads and star-crossed drama with The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Directed by Bard ... s early rom-com gets a full retro remix, complete with an ’80s ...
while Shakespeare was still known for lighter comedies like The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The play’s suggestion of collaboration finds some basis in fact. As Bryson notes: “Playwrights ...
asked Mr. Shapiro to direct “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” in Central Park in the summer of 1971. “I reread the play that night and said, ‘Oh, my God, this is such a dog,’” Mr. Shapiro ...
Not only is it peppered with eccentrics, it contains a wrestling match and more music than any other Shakespeare play ... of the RSC’s Next Generation Act young company will perform a new ...
This is a play ... two gentlemen of the title, Valentine and Proteus, both leave behind the beige and humdrum world of Verona, where it’s still more or less the 1950s, and arrive in the neon-lit ...
A modern-day interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona will come to life at Leamington’s The Bank Theatre, opening June 14. “The play features actors of all ages ...
The only play in Shakespeare’s First Folio Doran ... Neither young man shifts Silvia away from her lover, Valentine. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Oxford Playhouse Credit Geraint Lewis There ...
Broadly speaking, The Two Gentlemen of Verona ... moment of the play leaves us with a darker, uncertain tone, as Doran brings a significant gap in the original text to the forefront. Though the play’s ...
After 35 years with the RSC as actor ... during rehearsals for Two Gentlemen of Verona. Photo: Geraint Lewis How does it lend itself to a student production? I can’t think of a better play to do ...