Response to a theater production

OPERETTA BURLESQUE
This play is about an Italian man who considers himself as a woman. His parents do not understand his faggy behaviors and his thought that he is a woman. He thinks that he found his true love when he was forty years old, but the end of his relationship with Ciro shows that the society agrees with his parents that they does not accept gays or transsexuals. The moment that Pietro met Ciro for the first time in Ciro’s shoe store was most memorable for me. All characters have already shown up, which are Pietro, Pietro’s parents and Ciro. The only girl on stage was the imaginary image of Pietro himself instead of a real person in this play. The background setting is four dolls in dress contributed to the costumes for Pietro and the girl. The interesting thing about the dolls is that two of them were females and two were males. Excluding the girl, Ciro and Pietro’s father are two males, while Pietro and his mother are considered as two females. Including the girl, Ciro and the guy who acted Pietro’s parents are two males, while the girl and Pietro would be considered as two females. The background setting reflects the main idea that Pietro was a male born with female heart. The male dolls wore girls’ dresses and jewelry reflects the behavior of Pietro that he wore beautiful dresses and jewelry like a woman. It was not surprised that audiences watched Ciro and the girls took the same actions face to face because shoes were placed symmetrically, and they have same tools hold in their hands. Shoes provided audience with the scene of a shoe store and reflects back to the goal of Pietro that he wanted to buy a new pair of sandals. When Pietro was describing how he met Ciro and fell in love with him, the girl played Pietro’s role to perform the real situation in his description. The color of the girl’s dress was pink, which indicated that a love story was going to happen. The bracelet was the key prop that connected the whole story happened in the shoe store, which led to the appearance and development of Pietro and Ciro’s love story.