{"id":438,"date":"2012-06-01T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-06-01T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:45:23","slug":"the-servant-of-two-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"The Servant of Two Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Servant of Two Masters<\/span> at the Shakespeare Theatre last weekend.\u00a0 The play is by Carlo Goldoni and is an example of Italian commedia dell\u2019arte.\u00a0 It was an interesting play and certainly captured the attention of the audience, some of whom were laughing uproariously through the entire performance.\u00a0 I liked it but didn\u2019t love it.\u00a0 The play\u2019s humor is heavily dependent on slapstick, which is not my preferred form of humor.\u00a0 There are also some fairly raucous parts of the play.\u00a0 The Shakespeare Theatre itself warns that the play is not appropriate for children 14 years or younger.\u00a0 My take on it is that younger children (under 12) would actually enjoy the slapstick and not understand the more suggestive language while the 12-16 year old set would understand the references and might perhaps be somewhat uncomfortable with it (especially if they were seeing the play with their parents).<\/p>\n<p>Jim and I were certainly in the minority in our (relative lack of) enjoyment of the play.\u00a0 And the acting was excellent, as it usually is at the Shakespeare Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy slapstick humor with excellent acting, this is certainly the play for you.\u00a0 And, at the very least, it\u2019s an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw The Servant of Two Masters at the Shakespeare Theatre last weekend.\u00a0 The play is by Carlo Goldoni and is an example of Italian commedia dell\u2019arte.\u00a0 It was an interesting play and certainly captured the attention of the audience, some of whom were laughing uproariously through the entire performance.\u00a0 I liked it but didn\u2019t [&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":[29],"tags":[333],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shakespeare-theatre","tag-shakespeare-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-74","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}