For the summer 2007 the Casa della Commedia gives the opportunity to watch  an Italian traditional theatre show in its ideal setting: on this occasion, in the garden of Ca’ Rezzonico, one of the most beautiful palaces of the city, will be set a wooden stage built on renaissance projects, on which the famous masks of Arlecchino, Pantalone, Colombina will play a scenario that corresponds the traditional canons of Commedia dell’Arte, without forgetting the present, emphasizing the modernity of this type of theatre. This theatre genre , that had a huge diffusion throughout Europe between the middle of XVI and the middle of XVIII century, paving the way for modern theatre, finds in Venice its adopted country; the Commedia dell’Arte is therefore a fundamental aspect in Venitian culture and we want to revive it in its original strength putting together its spectacularity with the quality ensured by a professional  theatre company. 

Multilingual performance 
In this show, the traditional mixture of Italian dialects enriched by multilingual devices creates a genuine game filled with the harmony of different languages, that becomes possible thanks to an international company that includes actors from all over the world. This peculiarity, together with the refined gestural language of Commedia dell’Arte, with a strong relation to the audience , with the ability of the actors to translate in several languages the key points of the show, as well as with the thirty‐year experience of the artistic director and his crew, make the show perfectly understandable and enjoyable by a multilingual audience .

The show:  HARLEQUIN IN ISTANBUL 
It is a typical scenario of the Commedia dell’Arte, with lovers, intrigues, disguises, surprises, and recognitions. In action the typical Commedia dell’Arte masks: Harlequin, Pantalone, the Captain, the Lovers’ in a magical context with music, dance and pantomime, moments of poetry and social satire and unexpected characters like pirates, odalisques, and Turks’ Even if in the traditional style, the scenario contains surprising and innovative elements and a bit of audacity in content.

Dates:
August 2007
Thursday 16 at 9 p.m.
Friday 17 at 9 p.m.
Saturday 18 at 9 p.m.
Sunday 19 at 9 p.m.
Monday 20 at 9 p.m. 
Friday 24 at 9 p.m.
Saturday 25 at 9 p.m.
Sunday 26 at 9 p.m.
Monday 27 at 9 p.m. 

September 2007
Tuesday 4 at 9 p.m.
Wednesday 5 at 9 p.m.
Thursday 6 at 9 p.m.

TICKETS: Full price € 18 Reduced € 15