Two jobs no guarantee of success
The Performance Workshop has revived its adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 tale of a crafty, double-timing servant that it claims is ‘possibly the happiest comedy ever’
By Diane Baker / Staff reporter
New Taipei City-based Performance Workshop (表演工作坊) is beginning the new year by launching what it calls a “classic reproduction tour” with a revival of its 1995 hit,
The Servant of Two Masters (一夫二主), which opens tomorrow night at Taipei’s Metropolitan Hall.
Company founder Stan Lai (賴聲川) adapted an Italian comedia dell’arte classic, Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 masterpiece
The Servant of Two Masters about Truffaldino, a scheming, jobless manservant who thinks he has struck gold when he accepts job offers from two different people, which proved so successful that the company went on to adapt two more of Goldoni’s plays,