The Servant of Two Masters NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (90)
See it if You want light and funny. You don't mind a lot of movement on and off stage. You like slap stick comedy. You want to laugh and enjoy silly.
Don't see it if You want something deep and moving. You don't like slap stick comedy. You are not open to something different. You are too serious. Read more
See it if You like to see a silly play and be happy! The cast is energetic and the storyline is ridiculous, but the actors and the audience loved it!!
Don't see it if You want the original play and dislike a classic being changed with current lines to fit today's circumstances;are a prude Read more
See it if You're up for 16 century physical comedy with modern pop culture and current events improvs. Made me laugh for the 1st time in a week.
Don't see it if You don't like slap stick-y, slightly bawdy period comedy. Gets a bit slow and repetitive, especially the 2nd act.
See it if You like comedies with slapstick type buffoonery, the acting and singing were good,current political jokes,costumes,and fireflies cute
Don't see it if You don't like comedia,a little too silly at times, it should be shorter
See it if you'd like a silly (but not fluff) show. It's been updated nicely to reflect modern moods and pop references. Some jokes fall flat.
Don't see it if you can't follow a convoluted old (as in 1700's) style story. It's in English and mostly modern but still hard to follow at times.
See it if you're up for a refreshingly silly fast paced romp by a sharp ensemble in a too-long Commedia update marred by too many cheap election jokes
Don't see it if you've lost all sense of wonder or childhood, hate farce, buffoonery (at least onstage) or earthy humor that's universal and timeless. Read more
See it if you enjoy goofy, slapstick type comedy with many topical references
Don't see it if you want a straight forward play or don't enjoy laughing
See it if you are a fan of Commedia dell Arte: physical, broad, light-hearted humor, riffing on contemporary themes.
Don't see it if you expect deep meaning, nuance, strong plot. Read more
Critic Reviews (12)
"There is much to laugh about in TFANA’s production of Carlo Goldoni’s raucously entertaining farce, and boy, do we laugh. Every formula for comedy is either turned on its head or played to its full predictive hilarity…’The Servant of Two Masters’ stands firmly on Epp’s rollicking intelligence and the comic strengths of the cast. For the jaded theatergoer, TFANA’s production provides all the things the wearied mind desires: longing, love, song, dance and the simple beauty of laughter."
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"Laugh you will...Jokes are shot out like machine-gun fire from the performers of this piece...Even at these moments when the jokes miss their mark, the performers and the plot move along and the audience runs along beside them...A great deal of the piece is meticulously rehearsed and planned and is as finely tuned and breathtaking as any Abbott and Costello routine."
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"Director Christopher Bayes and actor Steven Epp in the lead role of Truffaldino make this commedia dell'arte work, which was written by Carlo Goldoni in the 1740s, come alive with hilarious, rowdy energy...The play has been larded with up-to-the-minute jokes...Epp is supremely gifted with physical comedy — a.k.a. clowning — which is a good thing since he can't make faces to be funny...Bayes is also an expert on clowning...The cast is full of talented comic actors."
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"The gonzo glee of the performances holds it all together; director Christopher Bayes has done wonderful work with the ensemble. The pacing, as befits classic farce, is blindingly fast…Some of the slapstick bits are screamingly funny…'Servant of Two Masters' is thoroughly enjoyable and deliriously well-performed, though ultimately fairly disposable. I laughed in a lot of spots, and while the whole thing doesn’t add up to more than goofy fun, sometimes that is just what you need."
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