鈥淲hat fools these mortals be!鈥� Puck famously utters in Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream.鈥�
St. Louis audiences may be fooled in production that lets the spritely Puck be two places at once. The secret? Puck is played by identical twins, Austin and Ryan Jacobs, transplants from Houston.
The brothers, who just graduated from Webster University, join us for our latest Cut & Past podcast to talk about sharing the role in the play and a childhood on the stage. 鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream鈥� opens Friday in Forest Park.
Here鈥檚 some of what you鈥檒l hear in the podcast:
- Austin Jacobs on their first stage role, in a version of 鈥淎lice in Wonderland鈥�: 鈥淲e were of course Tweedledee and Tweedledum 鈥� what else?鈥�
- Ryan Jacobs on avoiding being hokey on stage with the twin thing: 鈥淗ow can we use that to support the telling of the story rather than just being pyrotechnics that look cool?鈥�
- Austin? Ryan? (We couldn't always keep up!) On what surprised them most about St. Louis: 鈥淭here鈥檚 so much support for the arts here. It鈥檚 kind of amazing.鈥�
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