Saturday, March 2, 2019

The good, the bad and the rediculous....

In the last three days I have seen two movies and two plays, and it has been an amazing variety.
On Thursday afternoon friends and I saw "Cold Pursuit" staring Liam Neeson. If you like shoot-em-up adventure movies, this one's for you.  It was good, with lots of interesting plot twists. I would see it again.
On Thursday evenng we went to the First Presbyterian Theater production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."  This comedy was very well done and lots of fun.  I will see it again because I'll be working front of house next Saturday.
On Friday afternoon we saw the new Madea movie - sorry I don't remember the full title.  This one couldn't quite decide if it's a comedy or not.  Some of the usual Madea style slap-stick comedy but also a lot of moralizing about infidelity.  I wanted it to make up its mind if it was a serious movie or a comedy. 
And tonight, as a kind of grand finale, another friend and I saw the musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress" presented by the PFW Department of Theater.  This high energy telling of the 'true story' behind the legend of "The Princess and the Pea" was hilarious. The romantic interests were the weedy Prince Dauntless the Drab and the boisterous Princess Winnifred the Woebegone (nickname  Fred). One of my favorite scenes was King Sextimus the Silent (who can't speek because of a curse) trying to explain the birds and the bees to his son Dauntless using pantomime.
All in all, a fun few days.

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