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To be of mixed race foreshadowed the production’s most unexpected but also most successful casting decision: Menaechmus One was played by a Caucasian woman and Other, his white t-shirt clearly reading "Menaechmus" or "Sosicles" at the appropriate moments. The twins were played in the prologue by the child Max Jones, who was swept off to different sides of the stage as his identity changed from one twin to the Inventiveness of the company and signaled to the audience how much we would be asked to include silliness in our notions of reality.
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The prologue action also featured an extremely successful bit of special effects: as characters crossed the sea in a cardboardīoat, members of the cast mimed the actions of the sea with long, floppy, blue mittens that rolled or raged as appropriate, a device that displayed the The look assured the audience that it would have an easy Some adorned with bright, toga-like garments, others with tunics topped off with modern white navy hats. The cast appeared in modified modern dress: jeans and t-shirts,
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We saw at once that we were being invited to use our imaginations and to delight in the absurd. In this case it was anĮffective way to set the terms of the show for an audience mostly unfamiliar with Plautus or any conventions of the Roman stage. The cast acted out the story behind him, a technique I usually dislike because it shows disrespect for the talents of the speechmaker. Quickly established the permeability of the fourth wall by telling us most of the backstory of the twins from in front of the stage, at audience level. Upstage of all the action (for Dovey’s perfectly-timed, through-the-door bird-flipping, for instance), the cross-stage traffic necessitated by the side exits madeĭirector Given introduced the show and spoke the prologue, successfully subordinating his own persona as confident lecturer to that of the "Greatĭigressor" of Douglass Parker's translation, a script he used with very few changes. Although there were times when I wished for side-by-side The set consisted of painted banners on the sound baffles at extreme stage left and stage right. The second play to be produced by the East Carolina University classics program, this bare-bones student Menaechmi was staged in a recital hall at the
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Into a production that took full advantage of both modern and ancient comedic potential. Syracuse, the Rodgers and Hart musical based on The Comedy of Errors, which in turn was based, of course, on Menaechmi. John Given’s production of The Brothers Menaechmus began with a subtle nod to the great legacy of Plautus’s play: the overture from The Boys from Darrell Purcell as Menaechmus Two Kelly Hunnings as Menaechmus One and Darrell Purcell as Menaechmus Two