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Princess Turandot. The English translation of the Russian translation of the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play...
...play is an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 of "The Love of the Three Oranges", an early eighteenth century Italian comedy by Carlo Gozzi. All the fantastic characters of the old Comedie del Arte, of which this play is a fine type, flaunt their explosive fun throughout the action of the play. Mr. Seldes has carefully revised Gozzi's original, and has made of the fairy tale that was its fabric, an amusing travesty on modern life and customs...
...spirit of the early eighteenth-century Italian comedy will tread the boards of Brattle Hall on the evenings of December 6, 7, and 8, when the Dramatic Club will present "The Orange Comedy," an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 from a comedy of Carlo Gozzi...
...Gozzi was one of the most prominent exponents of the Comedie del Arte in the Italian drama of the eighteenth century. "The Love of the Three Oranges," the original from which Mr. Seldes made his adaptation, is a sort of fairy tale, with all the fantastic stock characters of early comedy. Mr. Seldes taking the idea of the Italian play, has fashioned an amusing burlesque of modern customs...
...comedy is a difficult piece to play and a difficult piece for a modern audience to appreciate. This fall another eighteenth century Italian comedy will find its way onto the Brattle Hall boards, with "The Orange Comedy", an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 from the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, a contemporary of Goldini's. Gozzi wove around the stock characters of early slapstick comedy a story from the Arabian Nights, welding together the comic and the romantic elements. The result is something unique on the modern stage, and the particular piece which the Dramatic club has chosen has never...