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Required reading for Harvard’s Classics concentrators, The Menaechemi has always been one of the most popular of the Roman comedies, inspiring Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the recently revived The Boys From Syracuse and even Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors...
...major goal of the production is to translate the effect Plautus’ Latin version would have had on Roman viewers, eliciting an analougus response from modern viewers. Kimel says he hopes that the costume and the set of stock characters such as the cook, prostitute and doctor will “reflect our own society’s assumptions on the nature of stereotypes...
Founded in 1885, the Harvard Classics Club has been producing Roman and Greek drama for more than 100 years...
IT’S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE. Where would you like to visit after you die? The Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 155th spoof takes you through Heaven, Hell, and Limbo in a production of Divine Comedy proportions. Meet Rabbi Noah Fense, Nun Taken, and the Roman General Curtis Interruptus. Hilarious. Wednesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets $25 weekdays, $27 weekends. Group discounts available. Through Wednesday, March 19. Hasty Pudding Theater, 12 Holyoke...
...MENAECHMI OF PLAUTUS. Come one, come all, to this hilarious comedy of errors, otherwise known as the Harvard Classical Club’s production of Plautus’ ancient Roman comedy. A provocative medley of song and satire, this bawdy parade of stock characters and wild confrontations has charmed audiences for over 2000 years, providing the inspirational fodder behind Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors and Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. See story on page B-6. Friday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March...