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Adapted & directed by Christopher Marino
Produced by Taffety Punk and Woolly Mammoth
Reviewed by Juliet Moser
Mark R. Ross as Julio (Photo: David Polk)
Two twenty-first century minstrels open Taffety Punk’s production of a long-lost play, an acoustic guitar and electric bass strapped around their necks. Serenading the audience with an explanatory prologue, these musical characters perform the role of both Greek chorus and extras throughout a fresh production of Cardenio Found.
LOVE’S LABOR’S FOUND
Mon, Apr 16 – The wind blew in Lear-like gusts last night, but inside the Warner Theatre, the atmosphere at the 23rd annual Helen Hayes Awards suggested the title Love’s Labor’s Found. Sparked by the opening flourishes of Marvin Hamlisch at the piano, the warmly modest emceeing of DC actor Jason Kravits, now enjoying a Broadway run in The Drowsy Chaperone (and fondly remembered as the world’s most annoying District Attorney on “The Practice”), guest performer E. Faye Butler, and the surprise appearance of Lynn Redgrave, the crisply produced awards ceremony managed to hand out 27 awards in two hours and ten minutes, with the sold-out audience lustily cheering each nominee.
Produced by Quotidian Theatre Company
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
Veronica del Cerro as Fin
Audrey Cefaly is a fine writer. She has a gift for character development, and her writing is deft and witty. Judging from her performance in this production, she is a more-than-passable actor as well. And she has done a competent job of directing her own production.
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