Comedy of Errors...GREAT! But who is the supposed "beloved Public Theater Park alum in one of the lead roles" that the Public was pushing two months ago?? Jesse Tyler Ferguson?? Hamish Linklater??? Neither is beloved and both are barely alums.
Beloved is questionable, but "barely alums"? This is JTF's fifth park show and Linklater's fourth. That's quite a few; they're certainly "favorites" in the literal sense that they appear often and are asked back quite a bit.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Daniel Sullivan has directed very effectively in the park recently. I liked his As You Like It, also the Alls Well that Ends Well from two years ago, and The Merchant of Venice. His straightforward approach is kind of sober; I wonder if he will be able to find the wackiness in the Comedy of Errors; but it should be interesting to see. As for Loves Labors Lost, I think the play really lends itself to musicalization. Obviously the Public hopes it will go further......
AC: the emails, I believe, were a deliberate effort to mislead year end donors like myself to donate. (That is of course, unless they announce one of the more legitimate "favorites" discussed on this board...). Sorry, but I don't feel that either of these actors - though quite fine and accomplished performers - fall into any potential donors thought process as "favorite." That phrase immediately brings to mind Streep, Kline, or Schreiber, or someone of a more recognizable ilk (yes, JTF may be on Modern Family, but he isn't exactly the first actor people remember when discussing SITP productions he has been a part of).
Unless a bigger announcement is forthcoming, I have to reiterate: epic fail.
I for one am STOKED for this. I'm a huge Timbers/Friedman fan and CoE is my favorite Shakespeare play! Will definitely be seeing both productions.
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