Oct 8
Theatre Forever: THE VENETIAN TWINS
Written in the mid 1700s, Carlo Goldoni's timeless comedy tells the story of two estranged twins, Zanetto and Tonino (played by one actor), who arrive in town, both romantically entangled and on the same day. The resulting chaos includes ridiculous sword play, romantic melodrama, arrests, betrayals, stolen jewels and death by poisoned wine.
Staged in Theatre Forever's vibrant, playful and irreverent style and drawing heavily from Italian Commedia dell’arte (masks made by Antonio Fava), this production, packed with more mistaken identities than you can shake a wet fish at, boat-loads of exquisite physical comedy and rapid-fire verbal play, promises to be an unforgettably hilarious evening of mayhem and stupidity.
'Ferguson has the courage to take the audience-performer relationship very seriously, to illuminate the fact that audience members are, in an important sense, co-creators themselves.'
- (Review for Theatre Forever's The Nature Crown) Jay Gabler, The Tangential 2015
'...plays like the love child of Monty Python, Jane Austen, and The Princess Bride.”
- (Review for Ferguson’s previous work) MPLS/St. Paul Magazine