{"id":179,"date":"2012-01-29T11:37:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=179"},"modified":"2012-01-29T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T16:37:20","slug":"two-gentlemen-of-verona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Two Gentlemen of Verona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Two Gentlemen of Verona<\/span> at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC on Friday.\u00a0 We have been season ticket holders for over 10 years.\u00a0 Our philosophy on the Shakespeare Theatre season is that we go to the Shakespeare plays, but we are hit-and-miss on the non-Shakespeare plays.\u00a0 Plays by playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw and Christopher Marlowe are good, but plays by Henrik Ibsen and Harold Pinter are not.<\/p>\n<p>We very much enjoyed this particular production of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Two Gentlemen of Verona<\/span>.\u00a0 The play itself is generally believed to be one of the first (if not the first) plays written by Shakespeare, and you can see early versions of plot devices in this play that he uses in subsequent plays.\u00a0 The staging was also excellent and creative.\u00a0 The characters were dressed semi-historically (with doublets and long gowns), but the set was somewhat post-apocalyptic, and there was music from Rihanna and U2 (both of which, I&#8217;m fairly sure, post-date William Shakespeare).\u00a0 The acting was well done, and we very much enjoyed seeing Euan Morton, whom we had seen before as the lead character, Leo Frank, in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Parade<\/span> at Ford&#8217;s Theatre and as Anatoly Sergievsky in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chess<\/span> at Signature Theatre.\u00a0 We think he&#8217;s a very gifted actor and singer, so it was a pleasant surprise to see him at the Shakespeare Theatre.\u00a0 The rest of the cast was very good as well, but it&#8217;s always nice to see a familiar face in a production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC on Friday.\u00a0 We have been season ticket holders for over 10 years.\u00a0 Our philosophy on the Shakespeare Theatre season is that we go to the Shakespeare plays, but we are hit-and-miss on the non-Shakespeare plays.\u00a0 Plays by playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[334,333],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shakespeare","category-shakespeare-theatre","tag-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-2T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}