Friday, July 6, 2007

Shakespeare pie

There is every year a Shakespeare Festival at the University. The evening we went, they were actually playing "A servant to two masters” by Goldoni. I won't go into the plot of the play because it's altogether too complex, but it's a typical Commedia dell'arte play, which happened to be rendered as a mix of Goldoni and of “American Pie”, or “Borat”. You cannot imagine everything you can do with food. The comments by the family just in front of me after the play were that “it was great!”. I have to admit that the creativity of the director was amazing, and that I will never see a piece of bread in the same way as before. And you have to grant everyone for professionalism. But you know, it’s (most) probably more fun to see Goldoni this way than the way you would see it in a classical French theatre. And also you make Goldoni accessible to everyone. So in the end it’s always the same question right? Andre Rieu doesn’t know how to play, he’s vulgar, but at least now some people know Strauss’ waltzes and might be pushed to listening more classical music…

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