Lincoln Center (Venue Partner)
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
212.875.5000
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Trilogia Della Viggaggiatura
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July 22, 2009 – July 26, 2009
Daily (8–11pm)
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30, 45, 50, 65, 80
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Venitian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s 1761 three-part satire of the Italian middle class was given new life more than 50 years ago by Piccolo Teatro di Milano’s late founder, Giorgio Strehler.
With a nod to Strehler and in the spirit of Goldoni, who took Italian comedy to new heights, Italian actor and director Toni Servillo continues this legacy of innovation that helped to redefine commedia dell’arte nearly 250 years ago.
Recently appearing in the Italian films Gomorrah and Il divo and “widely reputed to be the best Italian stage and screen actor of his generation” (The International Herald Tribune), Servillo stars in and directs his own company, Teatri Uniti di Napoli, in a co-production with the famed Piccolo Teatro di Milano in this fresh and charming version of a seminal work. This remarkably timely piece of comic theater reminds us that the masks we wear to escape from ourselves hide nothing and only serve to draw attention to the complicated realities of our everyday lives.
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
