Le baruffe chiozzotte
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Le baruffe chiozzotte is a play by Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni
, first performed at the Teatro San Luca in Venice in January 1762. It deals with the comic struggles between two families of fishermen in the lagoon-mouth village of Chioggia brought on by the love affairs of the younger generation. Written in a dialect even more exotic than Venetian, the comedy is intensified by the presence of a hapless young Venetian governor, who is helpless to enforce order on the sly inhabitants he is supposed to keep under control.
In modern times, the play was revived at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in 1962, in a production by Giorgio Strehler
emphasizing the humanity and realism of Goldoni's script over the conventionally farcical elements. In 1966 the production was filmed for Italian television.
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
, first performed at the Teatro San Luca in Venice in January 1762. It deals with the comic struggles between two families of fishermen in the lagoon-mouth village of Chioggia brought on by the love affairs of the younger generation. Written in a dialect even more exotic than Venetian, the comedy is intensified by the presence of a hapless young Venetian governor, who is helpless to enforce order on the sly inhabitants he is supposed to keep under control.
In modern times, the play was revived at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in 1962, in a production by Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.-Biography:Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste to an Austrian father and a Franco-Slovene mother; he grew up speaking Italian but spoke French well and his German was passable. He became suddenly fatherless at the age of three, his...
emphasizing the humanity and realism of Goldoni's script over the conventionally farcical elements. In 1966 the production was filmed for Italian television.