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The Servant of Two Masters (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Full title: The Servant of Two Masters (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
ISBN: 9780822218470
ISBN 10: 082221847X
Authors: Carlo Goldoni Paolo Emilio Landi Jeffrey Hatcher
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc.
Num. pages: 72
Binding: Paperback
Language: en
Published on: 2002

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Synopsis

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.

Milwaukee Weekly

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!