Review of Fools written by Neil Simon and directed by Rebecca Morrison On Friday 4th of November I went to watch the second showing of the highschool play Fools directed by Ms. Morrison staring students from 9th to 11th grade. Once I got to the theater there were very little people and my expectations were very low having heard from the crew about the many flaws that they had had. As me and my friends waited outside we joked about the lack of people, comparing it to the Broadway like productions of past years. I wasn’t knowledgeable of the content of the play except that it was a comedy and before the beginning the director came up to me and asked me to laugh really hard at the beginning so that the actors got comfortable with their comedy. The ushers directed us to sit down and so we sat in the nearly half full theater. And so the play began, Sebastian Pope walked in through the audience into a town of stupid people. Rapidly our low expectations were shocked by such funny characters and a plot that kept allowing all the actors to show their talent and physicality. All actors delivered laughs but in particular the duo of David Levy and Andrea Claux showed us parents proud of their “smart child” who was actually near retardation played by Fiorella Garcia. With his yelps and her lowering of the voice both parents made the crowd laugh hysterically. Not knowing how the play unraveled I was actually always engaged thinking about how Pope was going to relive this town of its curse. The play didn’t attempt to be too profound instead juts to entertain the audience in a normal high school production style. The lights didn’t work too well and there were clear production flaws but the actors gave it their best effort and made us laugh which was the goal of the production. In conclusion, mission complete!