News Details (Posted: May 30, 2007):

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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Performances: Friday June 22, 2007 at 8pm Saturday June 23, 2007 at 2pm and 8pm Sunday June 24, 2007 at 2pm Friday June 29, 2007 at 8pm Saturday June 30, 2007 at 2pm and 8pm Sunday July 1, 2007 at 2pm
Tickets: Orchestra: $25 / Parterre: $20 / Balcony: $15 Group pricing is available by calling the Theater at 1.866.653.8696 A spring evening in Ancient Rome, circa 200 years before the Christian era, and, as is his wont, the thespian Prologus bids us welcome to his temple - wherein are worshipped the gods of tragedy and comedy. Alas, tragedy will have to wait, for it is Comedy Tonight. "Raise the curtain!" he cries, and promptly it falls to the floor, revealing the set on which tonight's entertainment will be played - the adjoining houses of Erronius, Senex and Lycus. But Prologus seems more taken by the character of Senex's son's slave Pseudolus: "a role of enormous variety and nuance, and played by an actor of such . . ." - in other words, his own part. As the play begins, Senex and Domina are off to the country, leaving their slave Hysterium in charge of the moral welfare of their son, Hero. But Hero is advanced for his years and feeling strange. The reason? "Love, I Hear," he confides to the audience: what else makes you sigh, and hum a lot, too? The object of his affection is a courtesan at the house of Lycus, but, sadly, Hero has no convertible assets apart from his slippery slave. Maybe, figures Pseudolus, if he could engineer the young lovebirds' union, Hero would let him go Free. Free! A free man, free to write free verse, he muses. Phone Number: ( 866) 653-8696

Source: www.cityoftemecula.org