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The Love of Three Oranges: a play for the theatre that takes the commedia dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and updates it for the new millennium
The Love of Three Oranges a play for the theatre that takes the commedia dell'arte of Carlo Gozzi and updates it for the new millennium Author:Carlo Gozzi, Hillary DePiano Based on a scenario by Carlo Gozzi and inspired by his original project, The Love of Three Oranges is a wild raucous slapstick comedy. A comedy in three acts. Prince Tartaglia's life is filled with misery until an evil witch and her equally evil henchmen concoct a plan to kill him by sending him on a quest for three giant oranges. This quest, ho... more »wever, soon proves more fruitful than he could have imagined. Once he leaves the sheltered world of the castle he finds a friend in a clown, love in an orange, and most of all laughter in everything he meets. Throw in witches, wizards, princesses, an effeminate unionized devil, a few ferocious inanimate objects, melodramatic monarchs and a wild narrator who isn't sure how far removed from the story he is and what you have in the end is a flurry of comedy, parody, and quality.« less