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...Carlo Gozzi...
...King Stag, written in 1762 by Carlo Gozzi in revolt against the realistic naturalism of contemporary theater, is a feast of the imagination with the technique and logic of the commedia dell'arte, Italy's native improvisational comedy. The third Gozzi production directed this year by Andrei Serban. The King Stag is a fairy tale set in the oriental kingdom of Serendippo where the good king Deramo is looking in vain for a worthy wife. His trusted but treacherous minister. Tartaglia, tries to insinuate his own daughter, Clarice, into the king's affections to distract the king from the beautiful...
Saving the good wine for last, however, Serban offers as an appetizer to the evening's feast "A Gozzi Surprise," The Love of Three Oranges. A condensed adaptation of the Prokofiev-Gozzi opera of the same name, it is a frantic farce, of unparalleled foolishness, concerning a hypochondriacal prince who will die unless he laughs. In the course of the show, the prince is stranded in a desert with three oranges that turn into three beautiful, but thirsty, maidens. An audience must be snatched up into the realm of such nonsense, but the "Gozzi Surprise," despite the comical efforts...
RAPTURE. A handsome fugitive (Dean Stockwell) shakes up the inhabitants of an old, dark house on a storm-ravaged coast. It has been done before, but Patricia Gozzi (the provocative waif of Sundays and Cybele) brightens the premises with a performance of remarkable subtlety...
RAPTURE. In an astonishingly subtle performance, Patricia Gozzi (the disturbing nymphet of Sundays and Cybele) plays a lonely, imaginative girl with a fixation for a handsome criminal (Dean Stockwell). The girl's embittered father (Melvyn Douglas) and a slatternly servant (Gunnel Lindblom) agree to harbor the fugitive for reasons of their...