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Details for Flavio’s Disgrace

Arlecchino with fake arrow

Le disgrazie di Flavio

Very Brief Synopsis

This play is about a young man who inadvertently becomes victim to a servant trying to get out of trouble with her mistress. A lot of misinformation leads to broken romances.

Number of players

Total Main Characters: 10

Men: 7
Women: 3
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Dramatis Personae

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Relationship Diagram

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Additional Notes

  • In scenes 1.04 & 2.15, a lot of water gets dumped on stage. In most theaters that would not be safe or allowed, so finding another way to represent that would be a good idea.
  • Scene 2.03 requires a strong window in the set, and for Isabella to be athletic.
  • A bar for a door is a roughly a hardwood 3x5 three or four feet long.
  • This play has a lot of people disguised as each other, and so having a good costume department would help.
  • The Properties lists military gear for Burattino, but it never appears in the scenes recorded here. There may be something Scala forgot to include in one of the fight scenes.
  • In these later plays, there are many scenes with Arlecchino in which no plot point, mood, or direction are given for him.
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