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Details for Flavio the Fake Magician
Flavio finto negromante
Very Brief Synopsis
This play is about a young man who felt love for a girl as a youth, but left town when he was orphaned. Now as an adult, he has little money, but still loves the young woman. He pretends to be a magician to solve his problem.
Number of players
Total Main Characters: 12
Men: 9
Women: 3
plus extras
Additional Notes
- This scenario has a lot of people disguised as other people which may be a challenge for a small costume department, and for casting.
- Note that Scala mentions Flavio’s parents’ dying in the argument, but no mention of that shows up in his version of the play, but here that was taken as a suggestion to explain some otherwise odd behaviors in the play.
- Women end up marrying men they did not want to marry in the Scala version; this version gives earlier relationships that they return to. In the Scala version, some people are tricked into having sex with people they had not planned to have sex with; here they don’t go that far. In the Scala version Pantalone beats a few people (including “Flaminia”) for weak reasons. In this version the first one is an accident.
- Because so much in act three involves people believing disguises, it feels like it should be a nighttime act.
- In 1.11, Pedrolino asks Cinzio’s help to win Franceschina, but it otherwise appears that he already has her love... so that whole thing is a trick to merely humiliate Cinzio.
