This Company’s Story Is As Unlikely As The Play It Performs

In Cymbeline‘s “opening scene a courtier vainly assures the audience that this play, ‘may well be laughed at,/Yet is it true’. … Fiasco Theater’s success is, like Cymbeline, something of a fairy tale. … Ben Steinfeld, a company member, said: ‘Our story is preposterous. It’s hard to believe.’ Yet it is true.”