Word: commedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backdrop of The Last Don may be operatic ("God's world was a prison in which man had to earn his daily bread, and his fellow man was a fellow beast, carnivorous and without mercy"), but the setting and characters are commedia dell'arte. Puzo playfully admires the aging Don Dom. "Early on," he writes, "he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred guilty men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot...
That's Amore?? Through Feb. 19. MerrickTheater, Brandeis University, Waltham. 736-3400. Aseriously silly romp through the idols and issuesof our tiem, collaboratively created with anensemble of Brandeis actors in the tradition ofthe Italian Renaissance Commedia dell'Arte...
When Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) completed his Commedia sometime in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, he broke new literary ground by becoming the first Italian poet or produce a formal aesthetic work in the volgare, the native tongue of Tuscany...
Accordingly, Renaissance historian George Holmes has written that through his Commedia Dante "establish [ed] the volgare as a great literary tongue" and in doing so committed "the most fundamental act of Italian self-assertion in the medieval and Renaissance period...
...Buffalo there is merriment but no melancholy. The translation provides for commedia improvisations and further toys with the original by casting the actors both as the Marivaux characters and as a 1930s British touring troupe performing the play. The evening is fun. But it reveals little of why Lamos and others think Marivaux may be genuinely great...