Chicago Shakespeare's 'The Heir Apparent' is much ado about very little
"The Heir Apparent," David Ives' "update" of a 17th century comedy by Jean-Francois Regnard (now at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater), is simply far too much about far too little. A cautionary tale about greed and love (in that order), it is the latest of Ives' verbally acrobatic (and ultimately exhausting) exercises that involves a compulsive goosing of rhymed couplets so that they have greater appeal to contemporary…