Odyssey Theatre in Strathcona Park 2017 Archives - Capital Critics' Circle / Le cercle des critiques de la capitale

This Amorous Servant seduces her audience.

By Patrick Langston | July 25, 2017

A word of advice: If your plans ever conflict with those of Corallina, you may as well just give way because she’ll best you every time.

Corallina — a firecracker with an intense sense of honour, an estimable loyalty to those who merit it and an ingrained understanding that women’s second-class citizenry needs to be rooted out like a nasty bit of poison ivy — is the glue who holds together Carlo Goldoni’s rarely produced 1752 commedia dell’arte creation The Amorous Servant. …

The Amorous Servant: A new contemporary vision of masked theatre comes to light!

By Alvina Ruprecht | July 25, 2017

The Amorous Servant by Carlo Goldoni , directed by Attila Clemann, translated by John Van Burek. A production of the Odyssey Theatre.

The Odyssey Theatre is back in the park again this summer, braving the rain and the bad weather . Luckily it was beautiful the night we saw it, the mosquitoes were gone, the new cushions were comfortable and all was perfect.

A simple but functional set designed by John D oucet set the space for the dashing about the house that keeps the eight actors moving in this 18^th Century comedy by Carlo Goldoni , rarely performed, created in French in 1993 at the Comédie française and only recently translated into English by John Van Burek, better known in Canada for his translations of Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay! …