Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One November 14, 2009

20 years ago this November 9, the Berlin Wall was opened, admitting a flood of East Germans into the previously verboten West. To mark the occasion, Trav S.D. and his company Mountebanks present 'Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One,' a Brecht-flavored retelling of 'The Comedy of Errors' that brings Western-style excess to Shakespeare's comedy by doubling the number of pairs of twins in the plot to four. Separated at birth with the Allied Invasion of Berlin in 1945, half are raised in the Communist sector only to be unwittingly reunited with their brothers 44 years later when the Wall comes down. The result is mass confusion.