“Crazed jealousy is the bane of lovers’ hearts – it muddles serenity, and makes storms grow out of nothing, even in the calmest days” wrote Carlo Goldoni in his notes for 1759 three-act comedy The Lovers. Nine young actors will be on stage to depict jealousy, tempest, and an orgy of feelings: everybody loves and hates one another in the story of two quarrelling lovers, Eugenia and Fulgenzio, adapted from Goldoni’s work by Angela Dematté.
The protagonist is “ill-advised youth […] a mix of different characters in laughter and despair as they sink into the decadence of their souls, a decay of values, maybe – wonders Chiodi in his own notes – but that is born of the errors of their elders, a generation that won’t love, but envies, that won’t to be something it is not, and that mixes up true love, sex, and power.”