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Topic: RSS FeedWashington, D.C.: cut the Yorick scene, it's a downer.(18th century playwright David Garrick)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, April, 2005 by Wren, Celia
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SUPERSTAR DAVID Garrick may have shorn Hamlet of its gravediggers and rewritten Romeo and Juliet's tomb scene, but he's still persona grata at the Folger Theatre, part of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. April 15 through May 22, the Folger is resurrecting Garrick's 1766 comedy The Clandestine Marriage, a collaboration with George Colman that manages to lampoon lawyers, the Swiss, the nouveau riche and fans of romantic landscape gardening while spinning out a tale of romantic hi-jinks.
"It's sort of like Tom Jones meets She Stoops to Conquer," explains the Folger's artistic producer, Janet Alexander Griffin. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Clandestine Marriage production figures prominently in Folger's four-month...
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