'Restoration Comedy' Satirizes a Satirical Genre
Be warned. Not about the extreme profanity or bare-bottom nudity that abound in Amy Freed’s “Restoration Comedy,” at the Flea Theater, but about the evening’s length. Oh, there’s a play in there all right, of the standard two hours in running time. But this riff on two actual Restoration comedies—Colley Cibber’s “Love’s Last Shift” and John Vanbrugh’s …