Cymbeline Appropriate for what age?

[johnsolt]

Posted: 11/14/07 at 7:43am

I'm new to BroadwayWorld. I had a couple of questions about Cymbeline.

First, is it any good?
Second, what would be an OK age? I want to take my 15-year-old cousin? Too over her head, too risque?

Thanks.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 11/14/07 at 7:55am

There's really only one moment that might be considering too risque, and that's really only if you're all the way over house left in the 100 section of seats. I don't think the plot is too complex as to fly over the head of a 15 year old. I enjoyed myself immensely and recommend it.

[johnsolt]

Posted: 11/14/07 at 8:48am

Thanks, what, may I ask, is so risque? I don't recall from my days in high school when I read the play.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 11/14/07 at 6:57pm

It isn't the play. It's this staging. The first meeting of Posthumous and Iachimo takes place in a bath house so the actors are only wearing towels. One section of the theater gets to see all there is to see of Jonathan Cake before he wraps a towel around his waist.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 12:50pm

That's a few seconds at most, and as frogs said, it's only an R if you're seated in the first few rows, house left.

Not as violent as Macbeth or Hamlet, and not as romantic as Midsummer or Romeo, but it has a bit of romance and a bit of violence. And one good ewwww scene which I won't spoil for you.

Otherwise, the show seems fine for a 15 yr old, though the plot is a little complex.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 11/15/07 at 1:20pm

The ewwww scene - I had forgotten about that one.