Thursday, November 3, 2011

Love's Labour's Lost

I saw this play performed for the third time last night.  It was one of the best all around performances of any Shakespeare that I've ever seen.  It was here, on the Public Lab stage of at the Public Theater. 

Everything was well done: good acting, strong characters, strongly delivered lines, great physical deliveries, variety and simplicity in wardrobes and stage design.  One thing that set this performance off for me, though, was the physical, silent acting that was going on while other characters were delivering their lines.  That's hard to describe.  Suffice it to say that despite, what, only 10 short lines or so of dialogue, Stephanie DiMaggio's wench Jaquenetta is larger than Sam Waterson's Lear.  

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