The articles in these study guides are not meant to mirror or interpret any particular productions at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. They are meant, instead, to be an educational jumping-off point to understanding and enjoying the play (in any production at any theatre) a bit more thoroughly. Therefore the stories of the plays and the interpretative articles (and even characters at times) may differ from what is ultimately produced on stage.
Also, some of these articles (especially the synopses) reveal the ending and other “surprises” in some plays. If you don’t want to know this information before seeing the plays, you may want to reconsider studying the information in this section.
The actor playing Launce is bored and disgruntled about being a servant in Shakespeare’s supposedly worst play, Two Gentlemen of Verona. While the other actors play out the story of romance, betrayal, and mistaken identity between two sets of lovers, the actor playing Launce is all too happy to tell the audience exactly what he thinks about the story, his fellow actors, and life in general.
