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About Forum |
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The Dawn of Comedy |
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Forum's creators set out to put the comedy back into musical comedy
by combining situations from the plays of the Roman master Plautus, ("the
high priest of low comedy, inventor of the genre") with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville.
After absorbing all they could from reading each of the twenty-some surviving Plautus comedies
they focused on four (The Haunted
House, Pseudolus, and Casina, and The Swaggering
Soldier) and drew freely from the original plots and characters. They
then injected the spirit, logic, and drive of the 2000-year old farces into a
melodic vaudevillian romp remarkably free of anachronism. At last a musical comedy where the comedy
holds its own with the music. |
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A Slave to Freedom |
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Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, to purchase his
freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that
their young son has fallen in love with their beautiful but slightly dim neighbor, Philia.
Pseudolus concocts a deal in which he will be freed if he can unite Hero
with his young love. Unfortunately, Philia is a courtesan in the house of
Lycus, a slave dealer, and she has already been sold to the powerful Captain
Miles Gloriosus, who is to arrive that day to retrieve his bride. Of
course, as so often happens, everything begins to go wrong. |
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Read a detailed
syopsis of Forum.
Find out about the
roles in this show.
Learn about previous
productions of this show.
Read about the
history
of Forum. |
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