Word: ribalda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a couple of trombone blasts, an amazon of a woman, sporting gold sequins, helmet and spear, rambles onto the stage to tell us she got lost in this forest running away from a clumsy abductor who dropped her from her balcony. This lady of the lowlands. Donna Ribalda (Melody Scheiner) feigns gusto in her aria, but soon gives in to boredom...
...women are asleep, snoring and snorting, a little man toddles up to center stage and sings. "Look at me. Tell me what you see." His two short legs in pink tights stick out of a black velvet tunic. This little man, Don Octave (Matt Olivia), is Donna Ribalda's abductor and brother. For all his pink flakiness, the Spanish gypsy lady adores...
Meanwhile, Donna Ribalda worries about the weather. A dog. Berenice (Thomas Schneider), walks in and pees on the pink man. A monk in a silver mask, the father of Carmen Ghia, II Commendatoreador (Martin Marks), enters. Everyone kills everyone, and there is a happy ending...
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