Word: thiopã
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...typical of this brand of melodrama, The Æthiop??s plot is more convoluted than complex. The play is set in timeless Baghdad, complete with such characters as a vizier named Giafar, Cephania, Queen of the East, a cadi, an emir, a slave, and an Arab. But except for the exotic names and a few camel references, this is a play of troubled lovers, conspiracy and happy endings that could have been set anywhere...
...contained “no straining comparisons to present day events,” but more than one viewer probably came out of the production thinking about how much better the world might be if somewhere in the Iraqi desert, there were a solitary “Æthiop?? wisely finding ways to iron out all the silly wrinkles of the factions...
...character who guides a faction set against the Caliph Ali into the palace in secrecy. One wishes that Steve Schaefer ’05 had played the Æthiop with more exaggeration—that he had been more hunchbacked, more creepy, more disturbing. Given The Æthiop??s ridiculous story line and risible characters, the play can only be pulled off if there’s some great character acting. If the actors don’t ham it up, it can—and, in this production, did—get a little boring...
...thiop??s amateurish elements often outweighed its more professional components, but there were enough good bits here to make for an enjoyable evening. If nothing else, the production’s efforts at historical authenticity paid off, and it was fun to slip back for a night and enjoy the frivolous pursuits of bygone times...
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