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Fringe Show 2008
"The Antiquarian's Family, or The Mother and Daughter-in-Law" - a comedy by Carlo Goldoni
Directed by Darin Anthony • Translated from Italian by Beatrice Basso (World Premiere of the English translation)
Count Anselmo is irremediably absorbed by his collection of antiquities, while Doralice, his newly acquired daughter-in-law who lacks a noble pedigree but compensates with a fat dowry, is engaged in relentless fights with his wife Isabella. Doralice's father Pantalone takes matters in his own hands, trying to placate the internal wars that are threatening to collapse the household's stability. The generational conflict between mother and daughter-in-law, —a conflict even more ancient than the 1750's rarely represented Goldoni comedy— becomes the mirror of larger conflicts: between masters and servants; between the decaying aristocracy and a blossoming middle-class; between the old and the new.
About the playwright:
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (1707–1793) was a celebrated Venetian playwright and librettist, whom critics today rank among the European theatre's greatest authors. His works, along with those of the modernist Luigi Pirandello, include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Source: wikipedia.com
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