TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

The Old Globe Theatre

Los Angeles Times “Best Of the Year: Top Ten List”

by Charles McNulty

“One of Shakespeare’s lesser comedies was given a lusciously loopy outdoor staging by the inexhaustibly inventive Matt August.”

Set Design- Ralph Funichello

Costume Design- Fabio Toblini

Lighting Design- York Kennedy

The Orange County Register

“The Old Globe has at least one unqualified success at this year’s Shakespeare Festival: director Matt August’s imaginative and playful production of “The Two Gentlemen of Verona. August has some fun appropriating a wild amalgam of styles and periods in this freewheeling staging, and the result makes sense for this imperfect script.”

“August’s visual palette is wide-ranging…and gets terrific performances from his actors, particularly the young leads.”

“August, more than either of the other festival directors, has taken advantage of his company’s various skills and given them the best directorial concept to work with… He lets the play shine through, in all its flawed yet charming glory. ‘Two Gentlemen’ is one good comedy.“

North County Times

“Director Matt August’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona” has everything you’d want from the romantic comedy.”

“August’s ‘Two Gentlemen’ is fun and entertaining, and he brings crystal clarity to the wealth of witty wordplay and puns in the script.”

“August captures the flowering of youth and endless possibilities in the play.”

Los Angeles Times Review 

by Charles McNulty

“The most unexpected delight of the festival was Matt August’s effervescent and impressively lucid staging of “The Two Gentlemen of Verona. …August elicits sterling performances from his four young leads.”

San Diego Reader

“At the Old Globe’s outdoor stage, Matt August looks as if he’s burned for the assignment. He countrifies Verona, where cows moo, even in town, and makes the four young leads like middle-school innocents: Proteus and Julia aren’t in love; they’re omagod-headoverheels! Everything in their innocent, most likely virginal lives promises to remain unconditional forever.”