A Servant To Two Masters
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Servant To Two Masters
By (Author) Carlo Goldoni
By (author) Lee Hall
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
852.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
120
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
132g
Description
A Christmas pantomime with an Italian accent from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic Company
"Two wages. Two men's meals. Am I mad Not half." Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy about a wily servant who gets the best of his masters by hook and crook is one of the great classic commedia dell'arte scripts of world drama. In this new, rapid fire adaptation by award winning dramatist Lee Hall, the language has been updated to now in order to give the action the fast-paced feeling of a Christmas pantomime.
A cracker of a version certain to please all and fill the theatres.
Reviews
"The Servant of Two Masters, written in 1743, is expert farce." --The New York Times
Author Bio
Carlo Goldoni (1707-93) was an Italian dramatist born in Venice who wrote over 200 comedies, tragedies and tragicomedies in his lifetime. Goldoni settled in Paris in the 1760s, directing the Comdie-Italienne there. In 1783 his company moved to a new theatre on the street now known as the Boulevard des Italiens; they merged with the Thtre Feydeau to form the Opra-Comique in 1801. His works include tragedies: Rosmonda (1734), Griselda (1734); tragicomedies: Belisario (1734), Rinaldo di Montalbano (1736); and comedies such as The Servant of Two Masters (1745) and The Mistress of the Inn (1751). Lee Hall has won numerous awards, including a Sony award for his phenomenally popular radio play Spoonface Steinberg, which later transferred to the stage in a production with Kathryn Hunter. His play Cooking With Elvis had a sell-out run at the Whitehall Theatre throughout 2000, after his stint as Writer in Residence at the RSC. His adaptation of A Servant to Two Masters was a smash hit for the RSC and the Young Vic, and continues to tour worldwide. His two Brecht adaptations, Mr Puntilla and his Man Matti and Mother Courage and her Children were both sell-out successes in the West End. Lee Hall was Oscar nominated for his screenplay Billy Elliot.
