A Servant to Two Masters

A Servant to Two Masters

A Servant to Two Masters

Carlo Goldoni, Lee Hall, Gwenda Pandolfi

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A Servant to Two Masters

A Servant to Two Masters

Carlo Goldoni, Lee Hall, Gwenda Pandolfi

Overview

This is a lively and intelligent new adaptation by Lee Hall, with a modern free text complete with extra bawdy and juicy jokes, that loses nothing of the pathos from the original. In this eighteenth-century commedia dell'arte Truffaldino hits the'scam of doubling his income by serving two masters without them knowing. A co-production by the RSC and the Young Vic Theatre Company, this adaptation was first performed in 1999.

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Cautions

  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

Details

  • Genre: Period
  • Time Period: 18th Century
  • Cast Attributes: Room for Extras
  • Target Audience: Adult

Authors

Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni was born on February 25, 1707, in Venice. He studied law at Udine and later at Modena, and began working as a lawyer, secretary and councilor. He soon gave up his practice and wrote several unsuccessful tragedies, including AMALASUNTA (1733) and BELISARIO (1734) ...
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Lee Hall

Lee Hall

Lee Hall was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1966 and studied English Literature at Cambridge University. He has worked as a writer in theatre, TV, radio and film. He has been writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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