The Lovers

One of the sharpest and most surprising comedies by Carlo Goldoni, The Lovers, is brought to the stage in a contemporary staging that highlights the modernity of Goldoni's writing.

"Reflect, young ones, in these Lovers that I present to you; laugh at them, and do not let it be that they have to laugh at you." This is how Carlo Goldoni introduces his comedy to the reader, and in this brief sentence, there is truly the essence of the work. Two young lovers (Eugenia and Fulgenzio) show us how a sweet, clear, and guileless love can transform for no reason into raging jealousy: from this arise a series of petty grievances, furious disputes, alternating with sweet reconciliations and languid desires.

Is there a more universal and contemporary theme than this? Who among us has not suffered, endured for love, even rendering themselves ridiculous in the eyes of others? Which other feeling shakes and ravages our souls as much as mad love?

With a contemporary set design and modern costumes, a dry, direct, unadorned show is born, mixing lightness, laughter, moments of great comedy with dark atmospheres to represent a love more violent than all others; a show where Theater and the magnificent theatrical machine invented by the greatest Italian playwright triumph.