Word: callimaco
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Lisa Corpus plays Siro, Callimaco's servant, with a strained but effective air of impertinence. And Barbara Biddle is adequate, if not inspirational, as Lucrezia's mother...
Like similiar works, the play revolves around an elaborate seduction of a Florentine woman, Lucrezia. Callimaco, the youth who falls in love with her, teams up with the low-life Ligurio to deceive Lucrezia's husband into inviting the young man into his wife's bed. With the help of a potion of mandrake root and some well-placed bribery, Callimaco and company carry out the affair...
While there is no reason that actors Brett Barbaro (who plays Callimaco) and Todd Portnoff (who plays Ligurio) shouldn't have long hair, they definitely should not spend so much of their time brushing it out of their eyes--a persistant and annoying mannerism that detracts from their characterization...
Brett Barbaro is all too innocent for Callimaco. His "golly-gee" performance jars with the masterful seduction in which he involves himself. Barbaro reaches his most immature moments when he adopts the persona of a doctor to further his advances (a plot twist reminiscent of Moliere). It simply is not believable. And James Baker's portrayal of the stupid and foolish husband whose wife is the object of this intrigue is wooden and uninteresting...
...Lucrezia is convincingly distraught over the moral dilemma in which her husband places her. Her conversion after her seduction is believable, but not overdone. Todd Lochner, the crooked friar who joins in the play's dirty deeds, puts on a deliciously wicked grin as he consorts with Ligurio and Callimaco "in the name...
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