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MIHS Drama Performance of The King Stag

Come join the MIHS Drama Department in their fall production, Carlo Gozzi’s Italian comedy and fairy tale, The King Stag. Performances on November 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 at 7 p.m. in the MIHS Performing Arts Center. Advance tickets are $10 and tickets at the door are $15. Hope to see you there.

PLAY SUMMARY: Deramo, king of the of Serendip, is searching for a wife. With the aid of a magical statue, he has already interviewed and rejected 748 candidates before meeting Angela, the beautiful daughter of his Second Minister. She alone loves him not for his crown but for himself.

Unfortunately Angela is also loved by the evil Tartaglia, Prime Minister of Serendip, who is determined that the King shall marry his daughter Clarissa.

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Soon Tartaglia has hatched a terrible plan. He discovers that Deramo knows a magic spell with which he can transfer his soul into the body of a dead creature. When the King and his court are out hunting in the enchanted forest of Roncislappe, Tartaglia seizes his moment and challenges Deramo to demonstrate his magical powers by sending his soul into the corpse of a stag they have just killed. The King does so, whereupon Tartaglia, repeating the spell, implants his own spirit in the dead body of the King.

Mayhem ensues, and for a time all seems lost for Deramo and Angela. But this is a fairy tale, and as in all the best fairy tales, everything ends happily ever after.

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