Mirandolina
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March 31st to April 2nd 2005 Cast: Translated by Ranjit Bolt Produced by: Will Bird, Jim Szemeti and John Rush Directed by: Will Bird |
Five star bed and bawdiness from Italy's master of romantic mayhem! This robust and hilarious staging of Goldoni's 1753 classic "La Locandiera" was another great example of Next Best Thing's policy of bringing neglected classics back into the public eye. Zoe English's title character gamely held the farcical goings on together with warmth and wit, toying with the competing attentions of David Reid's unstable Ripafratta, Mike Gordon's louche Albafiorita and Simon Atherton's nervously foppish Marquess of Forlipopoli. James Rotchell, as Mirandolina's lovestruck dogsbody Fabrizio and Jim Szemeti as Guido, Ripafratta's valet, could only look on in dead-pan disbelief at the bad behaviour of their so-called betters. To add to the confusion an actress, brilliantly portrayed by Kristin Atherton, gatecrashes the party posing as an aristocrat and, in league with Mirandolina, a cunning honey-trap is set. The setting of Mirandolina's cosy inn in Tuscany was well recreated and the wigs and costumes had a sumptuous authentic look to them. With a great score courtesy of Martinu's opera of the play this delightful production had it all: romance, action, orgies and an unfeasibly large sausage.
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Production Notes for Mirandolina About Goldoni Directing Mirandolina |
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