Authors: Carlo Goldoni, Jeffry Hatcher, Paolo Emilio Landi
ISBN-13: 9780822218470, ISBN-10: 082221847X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
A cross between traditional Italian commedia and postmodern vaudeville, this new version of Goldoni's classic pits the madcap servant Truffaldino against masters, mistresses, lovers, lawyers and twenty-seven plates of meatballs. Imagine a Bob Hope or Woody Allen comedy written by Monty Python and performed with the physical bravura of Chaplin or Keaton with places in the script for ad-libs and audience participation.
A circus of styles tumbling backwards, forwards and sideways...full of ancient, hooting laughs zapped together with up-your-alley anachronisms. Shower flowers on director Paolo Landi and Jeffrey Hatcher for their re-working of the eighteenth-century Italian script. Broad, bold, whacked-out and wild! A tour-de-farce! Unforgettable, undiminished delight!