Summer is winding down and so is the warm weather, in a certain way I am happy, summer has become too difficult for me to take. I was having loose and unordered thoughts while sitting in my garden and a fun episode came to mind, my visit to Carlo Goldoni’s House in Venice. Goldoni was a witty, sarcastic Italian playwright and librettist of the Venitian Republic in the 1700s.
In preparing the luggage for my trip, I packed one of Goldoni’s plays, I knew visiting his House was in my plans, I wanted to envision his street plays and relive Venice of the 1700s through his writing. I loved that small theatre with a stage, regular theatre seats, dim lights and a great atmosphere!
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I have been a lover of live theatre plays since a young age. In that moment, being in front of antiquity, I felt attracted to that small, ancient stage, it even smelled like the 1700s, perhaps my imagination played my fantasy. I started to recite aloud Goldoni’s play to experience being an actress in his time.
When I travel, I don’t look like a tourist, I blend in with the locals, thus the attendant of the House probably thought I was a real actress practising and left me alone to do my things, but in the meantime a few hours passed by, he forgot about me being there and closed the House. When I realized I was by myself and locked in a Museum House it was evening and I started to panic a bit about rats roaming around at night in the streets and inside buildings.
The play I recited to myself was beautiful and threw me into another era. I would have loved to be enveloped by that atmosphere, but my reality was in today’s time and my modern phone got me out of there with a simple call to the emergency number.
Goldoni wrote many successful theatre stories: “Il Servitore Di Due Padroni” (The Servant of two Masters), “La Locandiera” (The Mistress of the Inn). “Il Bugiardo” (The liar), “La Famiglia Dell’Antiquario” (The Antiquarian’s Family) just to name a few. Next time, you are in Venice, please visit Goldoni’s House, his satire will give you a few hours of freedom from your reality. Ciao,
Valentina
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