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...Verona lacks both complexity and freshness. The play contains the early prototypes of what will become Shakespeare's stock characters: the blunt fool Launce (Christopher Scully), who uses crass language to express his words of wisdom; the love-sick Valentine (Andrew Sean Kuan); and the ruthless backstabbing Proteus (Alice Kim). In addition, the play is full of enough concealed identities, overheard conversations and overworked puns to make a sitcom writer groan...
Overall, the play is strongly acted. Kim's impassioned portrayal of Proteus is outstanding--she contrasts well with Kuan's sappy, lovesick Valentine. Kim's scenes with Li are usually plausible, but the two actresses seem hesitant to display the physical affection called for in the script. Perhaps Li is too soft-spoken--she plays her character as a dreamy, mopey girl, one whose bold voyage to Milan seems incongruous. During her disclosure of the plan to reveal Proteus' duplicity, Li says, "Poor Proteus, thou hast entertained a fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs." This line does...
Beong-Soo Kim contributed to the reporting of this story...
...ourselves into too big a hole," Kim said. We didn't come ready to play today...
...were not a team tonight. We were six guys on the court playing a game that must be played as a team," Kim said. "Maybe we were a little too satisfied after the Roger Williams Tournament...