The Maskers Theatre Company presented
Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters in the
open-air on the Archery lawn at Hamptworth Lodge, Landford. The show ran
for ten nights from Wednesday 14th to Saturday 24th July 2010.
This was the Maskers Theatre Company's third year at the beautiful location of Hamptworth Lodge and The archery lawn with its terraces is the perfect place in which to perform. We are grateful to to the Hamptworth Estate and the Anderson family for allowing us to perform here and for all their help in putting this years play together.
The Maskers Theatre Company is now in its 42nd year and aims to continue to bring forward award winning quality theatre to its audiences at the Nuffield Theatre, the Maskers Studio in Sirley, Southampton and at Hamptworth Lodge for many years to come.
The Servant of Two Masters is one of the great classic commedia dell’arte plays and Carlo Goldoni’s most famous piece. It is a rip-roaring comedy about the complications wrought by a servant – Truffaldino – when he gets himself jobs with two different people at the same time. Not all the complications are of his making; one of his ‘masters’ is, in fact, a woman in disguise, and the other is her lover, but Truffaldino doesn’t know this.
There are mistaken identities, cross-dressing, slapstick comedy, romance, jealousy, a duel and a hilarious supper when Truffaldino becomes a manic waiter trying to serve both masters a huge and very messy banquet.
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