Cymbeline

I went with two friends to see Shakespeare's Cymbeline last night. What a lousy play. The first half's good, but the second is silly and way tooooo long (we didn't get out till 11pm). I can see why it's not performed very often. The last twenty minutes are taken up with increasingly ridiculous explanations of things we've already seen throughout the play--half the subplots could have been cut. Boy, did S need an editor for this particular work.

Luckily, the sets were striking and the acting usually very good, with Martha Plimpton, Michael Cerveris, Phylicia Rashad, and John Cullum. Now I've seen it I don't have to see it again. The three of us agreed on this.