Introducing Goosed! a new play in the style of classic Italian slapstick comedy

It’s hard to say exactly what draws me to adaptation. Most of the time,I like something in it but hate the rest of itand I end up adapting it to “fix” whatever’s annoying me about the original. But every now and then, I read a story that just makes me say aloud, “This is just so terrible, I HAVE to adapt it.”

The Goose is not the most ridiculous story from Giambattista Basile’sTale of Tales, that honor belongs to the glorious-ness that isThe Cockroach, the Mouse, and the Cricket which I’ll al...