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Details for Flavio’s Fortune
La fortuna di Flavio
Very Brief Synopsis
This play is about several people separated by shipwrecks and pirates assuming alternate identities and finding each other. It also includes a Mountebank and his show.
Number of players
Total Main Characters: 13
Men: 9
Women: 4
plus extras
Additional Notes
- Some of the later comedies, such as “Isabella the Astrologer” have large casts, but among the early days, this play stands out as having the largest cast. Side note: this is the only play with the character Grillo (originally four scenes in act 1, we added some scenes later in the play).
- The set would benefit from having at least part of the Mountebank’s wagon at one edge of the stage as a place for the trio to exit to, and to depart when Graziano exits in mid-Act III.
- At the end of Act I, Graziano and Arlecchino give a sales pitch. This is something that your actors will want to work out and practice.
- Graziano’s wagon is a nice touch for a troupe with the ability to make such a prop. It is a good place to store the parts of the stall. It really only matters as a plot point in scene 306, when its departure shows that Graziano is not coming back.
