Society might evolve and technology might evolve but at our core, we are the same. This week, the UA Department of Theatre and Dance put on Carlo Goldoni’s comedic play “The Servant of Two Masters.” Set in 17th-century Italy, hilarity and chaos ensue when a servant, who is always looking for his next big meal, decides to serve two masters, one of whom carries secrets of their own.As the lights dimmed in the Marian Gallaway Theatre, a man stood in the back of the room and jiggled the exit doors, trying his hardest to get them to close properly. We all have a little bit of these stock characters inside ourselves, so it allows us to see all of these different facets of ourselves that we struggle within each of the stock types.”Although four of the characters were masked while on stage, the audience never lost any emotion from the actors. . His first dramatic venture, a melodrama written during times of clientele shortage, was rejected because it did not adhere to the rules of Italian theatre. He eventually tired of this struggle, and accepted a position at the Comedie-Italienne in Paris in 1761, where he had only one major success. From 1753 to 1762, he wrote for another Venetian theatre, now known as the Teatro Goldoni, where gradually he discontinued writing commedia dell'arte.During this time he also wrote opera libretti and served as the court poet for a duke. He was considered the “first important Italian comic dramatist after the Renaissance.” His early comedies “relied on stock characters who still wore masks, a concession to the actors, who felt threatened by Goldoni’s innovations” (As for the rest of Goldoni’s works, they can easily be divided into five categories. Finally, the man managed to close the door, spinning on his heel and running up onto the stage, where it became clear that he was one of the actors in “The Servant of Two Masters” the entire time.“The Servant of Two Masters,” a Commedia dell’arte play written by Carlo Goldoni in 17th-century Italy, follows the intermingled lives of two pairs of lovers who must desperately try to fight for their love.
Consequently, he burned the rejected manuscript and kept trying.The style of the day was to write comedy in the “style of the masks,” otherwise known as commedia dell'arte. The first group focuses on comedy about the aristocracy. In 1753, it was published as a fully written-out script of how Sacchi and his fellow actors had developed and performed it the decade before. Sometimes characters would even walk into the crowd and start chatting with audience members while something else was happening on stage.Nathaniel Reid, the department’s marketing manager and an MFA theatre/MBA candidate, said the play is easily accessible and full of characters that anyone could enjoy.Commedia is the original character comedy that we still see in use today in shows like Saturday Night Live, where repeated characters become familiar joys to an audience,” Reid said.Trinity Ross, a freshman acting BFA student who plays Clarice in the play, said that she’s excited for the audience to see that the simplicity of universal, sometimes slapstick humor is enough for a play to be relevant today.“It is old, but human nature is not old,” Ross said. We want to love, we want to belong, we want to connect, we want pleasure, we want to eat good food. Oh, that’s funny.”The backdrop of the play, which was created by Emily Maldari, included an old, Italian brick house with a curved bridge above it that allowed the actors to interact with each other while on different levels. He is credited with creating the opera genre, drama giocoso, or “jocular drama,” (Paul den Auden, “The Opera Librettist,” http://home.prcn.org/~pauld/ata/articles/librettists.htm). He was told, “everything must be done according to a certain form.
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