Commedia dell'arte, the antique Italian street comedy theater style, lends itself to improvisation, and actor Matthew R. Wilson had to think on his feet a couple weeks ago as his Faction of Fools troupe opened its production of Machiavelli's "The Mandrake." Wilson is playing Ligurio, a mischievous operator who's trying to hook up the love-struck young Callimaco with the hot young wife of a gullible old miser. (The ol…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PM on October 26, 2011