Event Details
Thu, June 25, 2026
21:00 – 22:00
TEATRINO
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Florence, Italy
Drafted and writted by this year’s Commedia troupe, based on the play by Molière.
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac is betrothed to Julie, the daughter of Oronte. Julie is in love with the young and handsome Éraste and has no desire to wed Pourceaugnac. In order to avoid the impending marriage, Julie and Éraste solicit the help of Sbrigani who uses all of his guile to help the young couple through a series of clever deceits.
Featured Biographies
NYU Tisch Commedia dell'Arte
THEATER COMPANY
Since 2000, Jim Calder has brought undergraduate students to NYU’s Florence campus to study Commedia dell’Arte. The Commedia dell’Arte workshop at La Pietra is an exciting and rigorous program that teaches drama students, through the vehicle of the Commedia stock characters, what it feels like to believe in something, to want something, and to go after it. Students take an array of physical acting classes with Jim and Master Teacher Jacob Olesen. They also learn mask-making with Joan Harmon. Each summer the program invites other renowned drama faculty members to guest teach. This year our program included: a verbatim class with Scott Illingworth and Shakespeare scene work with Mark Wing-Davey.