The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s hormone-drunk Two Gentlemen of Verona is a story of mad children at play in the house of their own hearts, adrift and rudderless in a storm of their passions, laughing and drinking and singing and skating closer to death than they can possibly understand. It is the interpretation one might expect from a director who co-authored columbinus, the chilling reimagining of the Columbine killings drawn from interviews with high schoolers and produced a few years back at Round House. It is also, perhaps, the only interpretation that works. [Read more...]