Not only does she have a form of amnesia that makes her forget everything every night when she goes to sleep, but she's been kidnapped by a very strange man. And that's just the beginning of David Lindsay-Abaire's New York hit. Of course she falls in love with him, but he's in love with Olivia, and Olivia falls in love with the boy Viola. They all have glorious comic support in the timeless characters of Malvolio, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The captivating salute to Charles Dickens' perennial holiday tale reimagines the story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Christmas Eve spirits from the viewpoint of Ebenezer's former, long-dead partner.
Ideas pop like champagne corks and language bubbles.
Regional premiere of a sublime comedy. College-Conservatory of Music's Michael Burnham, fresh from a production of The Tempest at the University of Cincinnati, will direct. Playwright Amy Freed has great fun with the ongoing controversy over the authorship of the plays of William Shakespeare. With tongue firmly in cheek, Ms. Freed's delicious new comedy subscribes to another theory which bears a passing resemblance to Woody Allen's blacklist comedy The Front. An adventuring prince solves a riddle, ends a famine, survives a shipwreck, experiences love, loss and even pirates before finding his way to a happy ending in a rarely performed Shakespearean play.