Word: goldoni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Besides the list above, Civic Repertory bills have included: La Locandiera (Goldoni); The Master Builder, Hedda Gabler, John Gabriel Borkman (Ibsen); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare); The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard (Tchekov); L'Invitation au Voyage (Bernard); A Sunny Morning, The Lady from Alfaqueque (the Quinteros...
...staging dramas for the first time is commendable, and that the box-office approves of the show in syncopated measure, there must be some recourse other than that of this spring. The value of the Club that could give American premieres in the same season of plays by Goldoni and Capek has been immense. It need not descend to a stereotyped school day selection of classics performed a thousand times before; but the wise admixture of great drama of the past with the significant plays of the present in one season would keep a balance of interest and a constant...
...Locandiera. Goldoni's "classical" 18th century Italian comedy is sandwiched in between the more substantial fare of tragic offerings ordinarily provided at the Civic Repertory Theatre.* La Locandiera, the Mistress of the Inn (Eva Le Gallienne) breaks through the crust of a woman-hater, the cavalier Ripafratta, finds him quite soft inside, then jilts him and marries her headwaiter. An old play, it is presented with all its venerable tokens of age (soliloquies, asides, good and evil characters) yet not subjected to the snickers of sophisticated production...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will give two performances of the "Liar" today. At the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston, the Goldoni comedy will be presented at both matinee and evening performances. Tomorrow the club goes to the Mangus Club, Wellesley Hills, for an evening performance followed by a dance...
...dramatic art, poetic gift, keen insight and subtlely of Moliere are lacking, but Goldoni's place in the history of comedy, if not among the highest is nevertheless secure