Into the breeches wearing britches ARTS COMMENTARY February 16, 2022
Nancy STETSON nstetson@floridaweekly.com
“Into the Breeches!” plays through March 5 at the Historic Arcade Theatre. COURTESY PHOTO / JOE DAFELDECKER / FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE
The other night, I was reminded of a classmate of mine from junior high — Glenn Zarr. I haven’t seen Glenn in decades, as we wound up attending different high schools. But I remember Glenn acting in our school’s production of “A Thousand Clowns” What struck me back then was how competent Glenn was onstage, how he changed. Not only that, but he transformed off the stage too. He was a young teen, but more confident, just … fuller, rounder, somehow, as a person. (Years later, he appeared on Broadway in a production of “A View From the Bridge.”) And something similar happens to the characters in George Brant’s “Into the Breeches!,” playing at Florida Repertory Theatre through March 5. The stage changes them, transforms them. “I feel alive for the first time,” one of them says about acting.
