{"id":4103,"date":"2011-03-03T07:36:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T11:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2011-03-18T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T16:54:32","slug":"to-err-is-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4103","title":{"rendered":"To Err is Divine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComedyErrors1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4108\" title=\"ComedyErrors\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComedyErrors1.jpg\" alt=\"ComedyErrors\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComedyErrors1.jpg 875w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComedyErrors1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you live in the Washington, DC area and you would like to spend two hours in culturally elevated laughter, run run run to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folger.edu\/woSummary.cfm?woid=590\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Folger Shakespeare Library<\/span><\/a> and purchase a ticket to <em>A Comedy of Errors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You may already be acquainted with the plot\u2014lost and separated twins, eccentric servants, misguided lovers, amusing mix-ups, and a happy ending all around\u00a0(which familiar elements\u2014except for the last\u2014Shakespeare adopted from ancient Roman comedy). But it\u2019s well worth another viewing in this current manifestation, framed somewhat unusually in a manner I will not divulge, and influenced by Italian Commedia dell\u2019Arte with its masks, wild costumes, and physical gags, here not excessively annoying. The Folger Theatre itself is worth the visit, a warm, wood-paneled and intimate space that feels more residential than institutional.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter and I saw a mid-week matinee for school groups, most of them high school students greatly appreciative of the bawdy jokes that went over the heads of our younger homeschoolers.<\/p>\n<p><em>For another illustration in celebration of this day, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=915\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Saved by the Bell<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in the Washington, DC area and you would like to spend two hours in culturally elevated laughter, run run run to the Folger Shakespeare Library and purchase a ticket to A Comedy of Errors. You may already be acquainted with the plot\u2014lost and separated twins, eccentric servants, misguided lovers, amusing mix-ups, and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4103\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47,17,96,3],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-dc","tag-penink","tag-theater","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}