Restoration Comedy
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 7, 2005
Closed Jan 7, 2006
Opened Dec 7, 2005
Closed Jan 7, 2006
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In Restoration Comedy, by Amy Freed, Amanda is believed to be a young widow. In fact, her husband Loveless is a very alive inveterate philanderer, and he has been on a ten year binge of dissolute behavior. Their friend Worthy conspires to reunite the pair using the disguise and pretense that permeate their society. At the same time, young Fashion, the impoverished younger brother of Lord Foppington, attempts to make his fortune (and outwit his brother) through his own game of love. Restoration Comedy was inspired from John Vanbrugh's The Relapse and Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift. Sharon Ott directs.
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Like a piece of divinity -- the candy, not the virtue -- Seattle Repertory Theatre's world premiere production of Amy Freed's Restoration Comedy is as light as air and full of deliciously empty calories. From the outset, characters with names like Narcissa, Loveless, Lord Foppington, and Hilaria cheerfully admit that "we just wanted to wear the clothes." And no wonder! Anna R. Oliver's glorious costumes wrap the cast in a Technicolor rainbow of swirling satins and silks. The men's hair flows as freely and beautifully, if not more so, than the women's. There are pratfalls, cleavage jokes, rhyming couplets, thong underwear, and plenty of seduction scenes. What more could a holiday audience w[...]