We should cheer it. Free theater. In Central Park. Starring the people for the people. But venerable ambition doesn’t always make for great theater.
)—first staged in 2017, adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery, with music and lyrics by Taub and directed by Woolery—thisNew York. And we cheer, because we should cheer it. Free theater. In Central Park. Starring the people for the people.comedy, one of the lightest on its feet with a cast of characters who get lost, and inevitably find themselves more profoundly, in the Forest of Arden.
The central lovers Rosalind and Orlando are separated for exasperatingly stupid reasons that this production even takes a potshot at near the end—rightly earning collective audience laughter—that wait, what, Orlando didn’t realize Rosalind was a woman disguised as a man all along. It was so obvious. And it is.
Lucha Libre wrestlers from the Bronx Wrestling Federation participate in the play’s key wrestling scene, but the limply staged bouts do not match the hype and flashing lights.the play disappears behind various bits of narrative and musical foliage. It’s odd that when Shakespeare is finally spoken, it feels such a surprise; more Shakey would be great.
Taub herself plays Jaques as a kind of slack-jawed Daria, who’s just over all this nonsense; Jaques just wishes people would focus on the futility of existence, given the imminence of environmental destruction, which we’ve all brought on ourselves. Too true, and have at it.The Forest of Arden itself is its own puzzle. The production seems to think that its diverse population, who are all kind and share their food, is an advertisement enough for a vision of utopia.
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