Tragedy Tommorow, it's Comedy To-night!
Apr. 11th, 2008 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerI came back from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." Which succeeds very well as a parody of Plautus and the rest of New Comedy's plays. The main couple was beautiful but dumb as a box of rocks.
Which was par for the course for the girl in question, in New Comedy. "Bimbo" is the kind term.
The slaves were the smartest people in the entire play, the son and father falling for the same girl, there was cross dressing, and five mistaken identities, and the problem was solved by the slave girl being the long lost daughter of a rich neighbor.
And Sondhim and Co. cut out the really horrendous bits of New Comedy. Which, seriously, yay!
Which was par for the course for the girl in question, in New Comedy. "Bimbo" is the kind term.
The slaves were the smartest people in the entire play, the son and father falling for the same girl, there was cross dressing, and five mistaken identities, and the problem was solved by the slave girl being the long lost daughter of a rich neighbor.
And Sondhim and Co. cut out the really horrendous bits of New Comedy. Which, seriously, yay!
