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Princeton Summer Theater Opens With "Shakespeare (Abridged)"; Three Thespians Romp Through All 37 Plays at Breakneck Speed
Donald Gilpin
Some purists might have a problem with this one. After all, when three actors present Othello as a hip-hop trio, a backwards version of Hamlet, the bloody Titus Andronicus as a cooking show with the rapist served as the main course and literal "finger" food for the audience, and all 16 Shakespearean comedies combined into one, there might be something lost from the originals. Whether the Bard in his grave is spinning in horror or rolling in laughter is up for question. Beyond question, however, is the fact that if audience members are willing to suspend all expectations of seriousness along with their disbelief, they will find these three young performers very funny and – in a relentless, Monte-Python style – very entertaining.
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Bleakness and Despair Prevail in Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," Landmark Tragicomedy that Changed the Course of Modern Theater
Donald Gilpin
There's no lack of void," declares Estragon (Edward Staats) in Westwind Repertory Company's production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, playing for one more weekend at The Hun School in Princeton. Mixing comedy and tragedy, vaudeville and metaphysics, this existentialist drama does indeed invite its audiences to peer unblinkingly into the void of existence.
