And Judi Dench as Franceschina?

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Come to think of it, Alice is a pretty nice fit for Franceschina.

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I think other plays seem more Commedia-esque (e.g. Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet), but this one has a couple parallels :-)

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Well, heck, some of the comedies actually use commedia character names, e.g. Graziano in Merchant of Venice.

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True dat :-)

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There were a couple of moments that really did seem like commedia for a quick flash.

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The play is full of braggart soldiers, so the resemblance is not coincidental.
And the actors were doing more and more "bits" and improv--if they had a longer run, who knows where this would have gone.
Also, the episodic structure of the play meant that some scenes really were like commedia interludes. The chorus keeps saying "sorry, we can't actually bring you the history of the battle" so they do comic and tragic bits instead.

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You know, I could write that... ...I have two Shakespeare plays as commedia behind me already.

I think Eratzio and Brighella would have to be quarreling over the possession of a barrel of famous French wine, a cask of Agincourt.

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Does it smell so awful that when you open it, it "Affrights the air?"

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And Pantalone's trying to start up a cock pit. Maybe you could adapt a scenario just from the prologue.

For raiding the comic subplots, though, didn't we do a show with about four capitanos of different ethnicities?

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For raiding the comic subplots, though, didn't we do a show with about four capitanos of different ethnicities?

French, Scottish, German and, of course, Spanish...

I recall Fritz had a much better Scotts accent than I worked out...

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