Theatre play in Italian - SCARAMUCCIA

Following the success of *Arlecchino muto per spavento* (Harlequin, Struck Silent by Fear), a co-production with the Stabile di Bolzano that has now been running for four consecutive seasons across Italy and France, Stivalaccio Teatro now turns its attention to another of the great characters of the Commedia dell’Arte: Scaramuccia, a character of Neapolitan origin who became, thanks to the skill of the actor Tiberio Fiorilli, a sort of likeable trickster who preferred to swap his sword for a guitar. A brand-new version, brimming with misunderstandings, mistaken identities, duels, songs and improvisation, created by the company that has made the reinterpretation of the Commedia dell’Arte

its stylistic hallmark.

The year is 1645 and in Crete, a highly significant island under Venetian rule, the most terrible siege the Serenissima has ever known is about to take place. As the Fifth Turkish–Venetian War looms, Pantalone de’ Bisognosi, a merchant and settler on the island, forges ties with the capital, Venice, to arrange the marriage of his daughter Ortensia to the wealthy Don Alonso. But it is in Venice itself that Don Alonso encounters Scaramuccia and his servant Arlecchino, and this leads, as the name suggests, to a skirmish in which Don Alonso comes off worse and meets his end. Scaramuccia flees towards Crete, pursued by Flavia, who is in love with Don Alonso and thirsts for revenge. In this Mediterranean – which is not merely a sea, but a liquid soul where millennia-old stories have woven a tapestry of multifaceted languages – a tale comes to life that speaks of love, jealousy, struggles and wars. A story which, in the finest tradition of commedia dell’improvviso, blends the serious with the comic, the sacred with the profane, truth with fiction, and takes us on an extraordinary journey amongst ancient masks, tall ships and the sturdy walls of the island of Crete.

Original story and direction by Marco Zoppello.

With Stivalaccio Teatro.

Produced by Stivalaccio Teatro, TSV – Teatro Nazionale, Teatro Stabile di Bolzano.