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Written by the 18th-century playwright Carlo Gozzi, The King Stag is the story of the king of Seredippo, Deramo (Thomas Derrah), who is searching for the woman who will love him for himself and become his deserving queen. With the aid of an animate Buddha statue, Deramo screens all his prospective brides for their honesty...
...deliciously feline Clarice (Pamela Gien) is pushed by her scheming father, Deramo's prime minister, into an interview with the king and his Budhha. She, who truly loves another, fails the test only to provoke her father's fury...
Another woman, Angela, has won Deramo's heart and Tartaglia...
Tartaglia (Richard Grusin), the prime minister, is one of those delicious villains. Sweeping down on his victims, spreading out his insect-like cape, Tartaglia plots his revenge on Deramo and his possession of Angela...
...King Stag includes not only sweetness and beauty but suffering and evil as well; the texture of daily life exaggerated in imagination. And for all the bewitching "superficiality" of the beautiful, masked characters, the play champions the spititual truth which magic and appearances sometimes hide; the beauty of Deramo's soul that shines even from within the grotesque, old man, and the ugliness of Tartaglia's soul that even Deramo's majestic form cannot conceal from the heart of Angela...