Tonight John, Joe, and I went to see The Comedy of Errors put on by the TBA Theater Company. It was a production of the Shakespearean script, as written, but set in pirate-times.
The theater itself was difficult to find. The play was performed in Grant Hall on the campus of Alaska Pacific University. APU is just Northeast of UAA; so, it's a bit hard to see where one ends and the other begins and APU's building aren't very well labeled. That said, we did find the theater in time and got good seats in the small, but well equipped venue.
Both actors for the Dromios and the actor who played Antipholus of Syracuse did a really nice job, and the actress in the role of Luciana was also good... but the rest of the cast faltered frequently.
The whole performance was off-kilter--it just didn't come together, there were too many weak links. By intermission, we'd had enough. Although we felt a little guilty, we bailed and went to eat dinner, missing the second act. Hopefully it improved for the more tenacious theater-goers.
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