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YESTERDAY was Shakespeare's 423rd birthday. What better way to celebrate the anniversary of the Bard's birth than to put on a production of his first play, Comedy of Errors...
Comedy of Errors isn't exactly highbrow theater, and the Quincy House crew is wise not to treat it as such. But it is a lot of fun, a pleasant and entertaining hour-and-a-half spent with the Bard. Happy Birthday, Bill...
After the boss leaves, I’m alone in the office. I'm secure all right--secure in the knowledge that I probably won't be leaving this office until my 60th birthday. Then perhaps I might take a few hours off to walk my dog, who by that time will undoubtably have died from a rupture bladder...
...sumptuous but redolent of a royal fantasy. The stage is filled with personages who could stroll the mirrored corridors of a palace. The Queen, for instance, wears a lyrical ivory silk dress, inspired by a Van Dyck portrait of Charles I's French wife, to her child's 16th birthday party; when she wakes from a magic spell a century later, she is in an 18th century pannier court costume to preside at the wedding...
...because the pieces echo each other in odd, intriguing ways. Gordon returns habitually, hypnotically, to a small number of predicaments. There is the pain and bewilderment felt by young girls who have lost their fathers, either through death or abandonment. One such victim remembers being forced to attend birthday parties and dreading them "as I did the day of judgment (real to me; the wrong verdict might mean that I would never see my father)." Other stories rehearse the misgivings of women who have fallen in love with previously married men. They wonder what the departed wives found objectionable, impossible...