I saw my second play of this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival, a British farcical comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. This was apparently a contemporary update of and older 18th century commedia dell’arte, and it was set in the early 1960s with a backdrop of the emerging pop music phenomenon. Musicians provided snappy interludes between scenes.
Overall it was a bit silly for me, with lots of audience interaction (which sometimes got out of control). Twice they brought up people from the audience to participate in the scene, but clearly the last one was a plant. The success relied on a focal character, a servant, who ended up serving to people who were both in disguise and trying to find each other, but of course kept being unknowingly frustrated by the servant. There was so much going on, and it was so silly, it was a bit much. But a nice was to spend the evening nonetheless.