Kingswood College's drama production to be staged for Parents' Week in October is Commedia Delight, a colourful play filled with larger-than-life characters and twists and turns throughout.
Kingswood College's drama production to be staged for Parents' Week in October is Commedia Delight, a colourful play filled with larger-than-life characters and twists and turns throughout.
In the story, the once happy village of Delight in Italy is now a sad town ruled by the cold-hearted Signora Notsobene Pantalone. She frightens the townspeople and her spirited daughter Piccola feels smothered by her mother’s rules.
That is, until a ragtag troupe of travelling actors turns everything upside down! The troupe is led by a woman who looks surprisingly like the signora, and with other characters assuming disguises, there’s lots of comedic confusion.
The colourful troupe leads the citizens of Delight back to their heritage of fun and long-lost relatives are reunited for a happy ending.
Using commedia dell’arte as a base, and flavoured with a little of the fable Stone Soup and Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, this will delight audiences.
Performances will be at the Kingswood Foundation Hall on 15 October at 7pm, 16 October at 11.30am and 17 October at 4pm. Tickets cost R20 and bookings can be made at 046 603 6600.
