Description Goldoni\'s eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity.
But from then on we\'re mostly in the broadly colorful lan.
Two Italian workmen stumble upon the remnants of an abandoned theater; when they open a trunk, fireflies flutter out and turn into the stars above a Venice of yore. an uproarious, unapologetically lowbrow, compulsively enjoyable excursion into the outer realms of farce." --The Boston Globe"It begins in elegance.
Now that\'s theater " --The New York Times..".
But then there\'s the magic.
The laughter would be quite enough to propel THE Servant OF TWO Masters onto a theater lover\'s must-see list. revels in the transformative power of theater. consistently locate Goldoni\'s sweet spot." --The Washington Post..".
Bayes and company, egged on by adapter Constance Congdon\'s buoyant script ... deliriously happy-making version of Carlo Goldoni\'s THE Servant OF TWO MASTERS. is pure comedy gold." --Broadway World Seattle"Sublimely directed by Christopher Bayes -- provides an equivalent bowlful of joy ... "Director Christopher Bayes\' and star Steven Epp\'s adaptation on Carlo Goldoni\'s 18th-century Commedia dell\'arte piece ...
The play is based on the Italian Renaissance theater style, Commedia dell arte, and reinvigorated the genre, which is so heavily based on carnival, while bringing to it an element of realism, mishaps, mix-ups, confusions, disguises and mistaken identity that come with the style.
Complications arise when a Servant greedily seeks employment with both the disguised Beatrice and Florinda and spends the rest of the play trying to serve two Masters while keeping the two unaware of the other\'s presence.
But the Rasponi who appears is actually Beatrice, Rasponi\'s sister who is in disguise as her brother and has come to Venice to find her suitor, Florinda.
She had been betrothed to Rasponi, who appears to have returned from the dead to claim her.
Young Venetian Clarice can\'t marry her lover, Silvio.
Description Goldoni\'s eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity
