Measure for Pleasure
Measure for Pleasure is a play written by David Grimm, and first played in 2006. It is set in the style of a Restoration comedy and concerns the romantic couplings of a host of nobles and servants. Plot summary Set in 1751, Measure for Pleasure uses classic farce, including mistaken identities, mismatched lovers, deception and wordplay. Theater critic Anthony Del Valle summed the plot as follows: Reception The play has garnered mixed reviews from critics. The New York Times' Charles Ishenwood's review was mostly positive:"Clearly a labor of love for a playwright as enamored of the lively cadences of Restoration and 18th-century English syntax as he is of bawdy punch lines, 'Measure for Pleasure' (...) will tickle, offend or simply bore in measures that will vary according to your taste for blatantly vulgar sexual comedy. Mr. Grimm's studied affection for the genres he's mimicking is impressive. (Previously he has paid tribute to the masters Marlowe and Molière.) But the play is essentially a nasty comedy-club routine performed in silk britches and powdered wigs.". Anthony Del Valle, reviewing the play in a 2012 creation in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, observed "Las Vegas Little Theatre's 'Measure for Pleasure' is remarkable in that