THIRD ACTION: SPANISH-ITALIAN
COMMUNITY ACTORS [150]
Comprise
| Participants [150] | |
| [No Figurants] | |
| Individuals [2] | Improvised Comedy |
| The Doge of Venice | Actors [6] |
| The Spanish Ambassador | Il Capitano |
| Arlecchino | |
| Venetian Nobles [24] | Il Commandatore |
| Spanish Courtiers [24] | Pantalone |
| Brighella | |
| Venetian Populace [94] | Columbina |
THEME
On the plaza of St. Marks in Venice [A. D., about 1630], a troop of Improvised Comedy Actors [of the Commedia dell’ Arte] enact before the Doge and the Spanish Ambassador, amid the populace, during a festa, a pantomime scene depicting an adventure of Don Giovanni.
ACTION
When the last of the gold-clad French and English have departed through the South Gate, a chiming of church-bells from the gates of the north [right and left] gives signal for the entrance there of an Italian Festa.
From the right, enters the Doge with his Venetian nobles, accompanied by the Italian populace; from the left, the Spanish Ambassador and his Suite, accompanied by a troop of Improvised Comedy Actors, who set up a platform on wooden horses before the Doge and the Ambassador where they meet and greet each other, at right of centre [north].
Here six Actors mount the platform, at the back of which is a curtain, divided in the middle.