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Details for The Mirror

Arlecchino with fake arrow

Lo specchio

Very Brief Synopsis

This play is about a young woman who dresses as a boy to work in the house of her father, who'd abandoned her mother. Various love interests develop among the young people.

Number of players

Total Main Characters: 10

Men: 7
Women: 3
plus extras

Dramatis Personae

and Props and Sets


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Relationship Diagram

Includes characters named but not in the play


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Link to Purchase

Electronic copy of this play


Link to Gum Road

Additional Notes

  • The actors playing Flavio and Orazio are good candidates to play the ghosts in scene 1.18
  • Note that in this play, Pedrolino is not anyone’s servant. He is a friend of Laura’s.
  • Two sympathetic characters conspire to drug an unwitting third party.
Agnan escaping
Young Lovers
Francatrippe being sad
Zanni following Pantalone