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The actors playing the rural brother and his servant are particularly obsessed with broad, quick gestures. Physical business appears to be the chief priority of Vera Katz's direction.
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The music is melodic and jazzy, though some of the songs seem to come out of nowhere in the story. The symmetry and some of the laughs are missing.Ī score by Henri Edmonds helps fill some of the gaps. Here only one of the brothers has a servant, and his presence seems pointless. In Shakespeare's play, the two twin brothers of the family had servants who added to the confusion.
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A family that had been separated in a Mississippi River shipwreck is reunited through a series of coincidental meetings. Kelsey Collie's script isn't nearly as complicated or as witty as Shakespeare's but it should be remembered that Shakespeare himself stole the story from "The Twin Menaechmi," by Plautus.Ĭollie has placed the action in turn-of-the-century New Orleans at Mardi Gras. "Brother," however, is a breezy, basic little farce that is being performed almost as a carton. The title suggest a painfully self-conscious social drama of family soap opera.
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"Brother, Brother, Brother, Mine" does not sound like the title of a musical based on "The Comedy of Errors." Fortunately, the title was the biggest error committed by the creator of "Brother," which is an original show playing Howard University's Aldridge Theater through Sunday.