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About the story: The people and the tragic story of Italy, whose text is stolen as freely as recklessly from Shakespeare’s
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of The
morality plays were staged for the first time in They
are representations that were mostly realized for educational purposes, with
the intent of spreading religious themes and concepts. Generally
these performances had as protagonists the human being and his relationship
with the great universal archetypes, like life and death, sin and redemption,
good and evil. Moreover,
they were almost always told through allegory and symbolic characters. The
best known is the Everyman, an intelligent morality play of the end of '400,
in which the protagonist is precisely everyone, that is all of us, and his
battle against Death. Even
if the theatre shows from morality plays came from religious and educational texts,
they were not appreciated by most of the clergy, because they were made with
clear comic and satirical intent. However,
a key point should be clarified on this show: it has no educational purpose
and neither is inspired by religious passions. This
is a dirty story, full of injustice and corruption, deception and betrayal,
secrets and lies. For
this reason it is an immorality
play… ____________________________________________________ Information and Press: Last update: 2009-12-10 |
