Press Release - Office of College Advancement

Thursday, October 27, 2011
Office of College Advancement
Ohlone College
510.979.7941
www.ohlone.edu

Ohlone College Presents a Seventeenth-Century Classic Comedy with a Modern Twist

Fremont, CA—The original Servant of Two Masters, a 250-year old Commedia dell’Arte farce, features Truffaldino, the wily servant around whom all the comic madness explodes. Oded Gross and Tracy Young’s modern twist gives a timely and youthful edginess to Servant that looks like it was ripped from today’s headlines. Ohlone College’s Theatre Department presents three weekends of Servant of Two Masters, beginning November 4.

Goldoni’s original story depicts a hapless servant who, broke and hungry, finds himself in the service of two masters, penetrating the love lives and official affairs of two households, dodging one while narrowly averting disaster with another, and managing to outwit them all.

Gross and Young’s adaptation places the Goldoni farce within a second story, that of a down-on-its-luck theatre department, struggling with budget cuts and rolling blackouts, (broke and hungry!), struggling to tell the comic tale of Truffaldino despite all the challenges. They don’t quite “Occupy Ohlone” to make their point, but the characters will dazzle the audience with the struggles of living by their wits as their wallets fail, keeping their humor and humanity about them.

For tickets and information, please visit the Smith Center website at: http://www.smithcenter.com, email the Box Office at: boxoffice@ohlone.edu or call (510) 659-6031.

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