The Dog in the Manger
From: Tuesday, 5th May 2009
To: Saturday, 9 May 2009
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Synopsis
1613 social comedy about a countess who compromises her honour. Set in Naples, in the court of Diana, Countess of Belfor. Diana is a beautiful and headstrong young woman who is beset by aristocratic suitors urging marriage upon her. Diana refuses all advances. One night, she discovers her handsome young secretary making love to her favourite lady in waiting and is consumed with jealousy. A heartbreaking love triangle is forged and so begins a tale of forbidden love, envy and passion.
Our Review:
6 May 2009
The updating of this 17th Century play, by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega, to 1950s Italy doesn't quite show us La Dolce Vita but a Countess, who in Helen Beaumont's Diana - reflecting the beauty and elegance of Grace Kelly but with the drive, anger and aggression of Margaret Thatcher - is an unmarried woman bored with life and the ardour of two suitors (a swashbuckling Marquis and her somewhat anally retentive cousin). She suddenly finds herself entranced by her personal secretary when she finds out that he is courting one of her maids and determines that she will do anything to keep him to herself.
Therein lies the plot of this comedy as each try to outdo each other in a series of farcical interludes; the plot is reminiscent of Twelfth Night - one wonders if they were drawn from similar source material - only here it is played for laughs 'Commedia' style in what amounts to a very entertaining piece.
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