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Details for The Capitano
Il capitano
Very Brief Synopsis
This play is about a long-separated family who assumed new identities, but they find each other and reunite. Some romantic interests also get resolved.
Number of players
Total Main Characters: 10
Men: 7
Women: 3
plus extras
Additional Notes
- Hard work for the cast! This play can be seen as a mystery for the audience to solve, as the details in the very complicated argument need to be understood by all cast members, as they are key to having a unified explanation for all of the counter-intuitive choices that people make on the way to the happy ending.
- Andrews points out that his scenario is unusually poorly recorded by Scala.
- Graziano is a guest of Pantalone and does not have a house on the set of this play.
- The garden is the main location for scenes in Act 3.
- In Scala’s version there is a messenger. Avoiding a one-scene character, here, there is a letter providing the same plot-point.
