As a part of my birthday present from the bestie, she and I went to see "Taking Steps" by Allen Ayckbourn this evening performed by the Colonial Players of Annapolis. We were both quite excited about it. The play description classified it as a "straight up farce." The only experience I've had with a straight up farce was "Boeing Boeing" which ranks as one of the 5 best theatre performances I've ever seen. So the bar was set pretty high.
After a quite long and arduous 2.5 hours, we were quite disappointed. Not only was it not on par with "Boeing Boeing" it wasn't even in the same league. And I'm not even sure why.
I don't want to say it was the cast because any one who is willing to go on stage and perform in front of actual people, is infinitely more talented than I am. The survey seems to point to the actual play. The writing just wasn't good which I also hate to say. There were a few zingers but all in all, there didn't seem to be a plot. Most of all having a "farce" performed in the round with everyone in the same 10x10 square pretending to be on 3 separate floors of a mansion was too much of a stretch of imagination for my little brain.
All in all in was an enjoyable evening in Annapolis capped off with some Banana ice cream with a bit of boredom there in the middle. The night could have been a lot worse, though I'm not sure the play could have been...
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