It's really good! The actors really got into the period style. I think a lot of people are into the dogs, but the play is a great example of Victorian melodrama. Normally, female performers are much better than male performers (you have a much wider pool to pick from), and here it's true, the female performers were standouts, but the guys were just as good.
In short: Aramis, playing Remus, was a standout! She did a lovely disarm of the villain (maybe looking a little too much like she really was just going to knock that annoying fake pistol out of Dave's had and then lick him to death, but hey) and D'Artagnan was also great. He tied up the another villain with dispatch (actually, D'Artagnan likes to play tug of war and the villain twists his hands around to be tied up, but hey, we're talking about two cute Shelties here). Other key feats of dog derring do include trying to hide important papers from the villain (unsuccessful because Caesar, the "hero" is such a dolt), destroying, by eating, a note that must be kept from the General (unnecessary anyway because the General is farsighted and can't read the darn thing, but it's an adorable scene), and finding the key proof of the hero's identity at the last minute. Lovely.
Dave Ferry (Dervilliers, the villain of the piece) is just adorable. He even has a cute conjuring trick during the intermission ostensibly to show that he really isn't a villain, where he plays an audience member for a dupe, and then says: It's true, I'm typecast.
Crenshaw (the Chevalier, the hero who actually appears to have a brain) is lovely too.
Mundy Spears is beyond fantastic as Georgette, one of the two love interests, sort of an opera soubrette role, and Anne Stuecker is lovely as Clementine the other love interest.
Actually, everyone was great. Matt Orr had a number of small roles (footman, villaninous thug, etc.) and was hilarious. Cody Sullivan (?) was also quite amusing.
The General and the Countess, while not played for laughs as much, were both quite good.
The sets could use a bit of work (that was not Innana's job, btw), and I understand that at the next performance there will be some new pieces.
Very enjoyable. And cute dogs.
April 27, 2006
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I see you have picked up my (British) habit of calling everything "lovely." That is just lovely of you.
Thanks for the cool review, by the way.
Isn't me lovely. And I love you, btw.
Thanks, me old china!
Blimey! What's the world coming to when the Yanks start speaking proper English! ;-)
I love watching plays. Have you ever done any acting, Foilwoman?
Actually, Foilwoman sounds like a good title for a three-act.
Bunny: As long as we're not eating beans on toast (we're not that godforsaken), I think you're safe.
XMan: "Foilwoman of ________: An Urban Fable of Horror, Love, and Disaster, with a Moral": that's how it all started out. Not as a play, but as an attempt at a novel. I've lost the link, but it's back in April of May of 2005, "A Brief History of Foilwoman" in the archives. And no, I've never acted -- first, I'm too tall (actors really don't like that, and they are mainly short), and second, it's the shy ones who blossom onstage (Innana). Me, I'm my own three-ring circus, much less a role in a play. But thanks.
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