Not only is the comedy in Great Lakes Theater’sperfectly coordinated. The show itself arrives at just the right moment, when it’s needed most.
Director Charles Fee’s choice to set Shakespeare in the 1920s is even more inspired than meets the eye. Because we’re basically living in the same throw-caution-to-the-wind era, the Chaplin-esque physical comedy that makes the production so laugh-out-loud funny feels familiar and comforting, not corny. Somehow, too, Beatrice is even more enjoyable as a free-spirited flapper. No matter that the soldiers’ elegant costumes evoke the 18th, not the 20th, century.
And oh, the physical comedy. Hawkins takes the old gags of hiding behind a potted plant and fishing for a loose hat to uproarious new heights, while Berg, with help from her ladies-in-waiting, breaks ground with possibly the funniest use in theater of a functioning garden hose. There’s no shortage of comic talent or serious dramatic ability in the rest of the cast, either, all the way down to the watchmen and the vigorously villainous Don John, ably played by Nick Steen.
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