Play Script
The Servant of 123 Masters
by Hillary DePiano
inspired by Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters
Truffleato came to Venice hungry for a life of leisure and cookies. Instead he found a master that’s supposed to be dead, a bakery deal about to crumble and a man seeking his lost fiance. The professional servant’s plans for sweet retirement get increasingly complicated as he finds himself taking on one… two… three masters (ah ah ah! ). If he can pull it off, it’s triple wages and all the cookies he can eat, but can he keep his masters apart when it turns out they’re all looking for each other?
aka a hilarious parody of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters by way of Sesame Street
- Comedy
- Run Time: 1 hour
- Cast Size: 11-12 possible
- Gender Breakdown*: 9m, 3f (0-11 m, 0-11 f possible)
* = Because this is a parody of male-heavy source material, I left the pronouns as they are for the original characters to preserve the joke, but any character can be performed by any gender performer and you can change pronouns wherever needed.
Availability
This play is available for productions but unpublished. Members of the New Play Exchange can read it in its entirety for free here.
That's ONE... TWO... THREE! THREE masters! Ah ah ah!
- The Servant of 123 Masters
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