Paul Singleton as Theseus and The Wooer in The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare & John Fletcher

A series of “concert” staged readings in New York at the WorkShop Theater Company and Hudson River Park, Summer 2009.

Review by Richard Grayson of DUMBO Books of Brooklyn blog:

This afternoon we had the pleasure of going to Hudson River Park's Clinton Cove, a beautiful spot on the river at 55th Street, and watching a staged reading of The Two Noble Kinsmen, the tragicomedy written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. ...

The cast - James Edward Becton, Donte Bonner, Alexandra Cremer, Joseph Franchini, Jenny Greeman, Carrie Isaacman, Jonathan Periera, and Paul Singleton - were uniformly excellent in playing multiple parts. They employed the bound scripts in a manner that soon we didn't notice them much and instead concentrated on the words, the actor's line readings, and some physical gestures. ...

Really, we were impressed with how well Two Noble Kinsmen worked in this format. This reading smartly emphasized the comic aspects of the play - the scenes with the love-mad jailer's daughter and the doctor's plot to disguise her anxious suitor (Paul Singleton) as her beloved Palamon were laugh-out-loud funny and bawdy. …

It was Becton and Bonner who were the two kinsmen of the title, and they were excellent, but so was everyone else, even when playing such distinct roles as both Hippolyta and the Doctor or both Theseus and the Wooer (Paul Singleton) of the Jailer's Daughter.