Lust, Lies and Marriage or Il Pozzo Dei Furbi
Directed by Antonio Fava
Previews March 28th-30th,
Opens April 4th
Plays Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm
Closes May 10th
Join us for a world-premiere comedy guaranteed to get you laughing with joy and delighting in its wit. This rollicking production will feature the Piccolo ensemble returning to their roots of Italian farce. The play will be directed by and feature original mask design and music by Commedia dell'Arte master Antonio Fava. Don't miss the chance to see an international artist's work close up in a hilarious and dynamic rarely-seen art form!
Italian merrymaking and comedy!
Sponsored by:
Special thanks to the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago for its collaboration and support.
Sponsored in part by:
Chicago Sister Cities International/Milan Committee
Visiting from Italy, Maestro Fava will be Piccolo's artist-in-residence for the month of March. Drawing from a newly discovered set of Commedia dell'Arte scenarios from southern Italy, Lust, Lies and Marriage will be a world-premiere contemporary English version of a play last performed over three hundred years ago.
Dottore tells his daughter she'll be marrying Lelio when all she wants to do is marry the handsome Orazio. A foreign woman named Celia falls in love with the same Orazio while another gentlemen named Odoardo falls in love with her. What's a servant or two to do but dress up in disguise and help love-struck masters figure the whole mess out! Add an enchanted well, a wily thief, a voluptuous inn-keeper and greedy fathers and you've got a classic set-up for an Italian farce Commedia dell'Arte style!
Join Piccolo for an extraordinary collaboration with one of Italy's
most famous and successful maestros of comedy!
For more information about Maestro Fava go to: http://www.commediabyfava.it/EN/index.html
View flash photo slide show of the performance:
http://www.rep3.com/piccoloLLM2008/