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Gragnanella 19/7/92 Maggio 'Eronte' by compagnia di Piazza al Serchio, video tape 1 of 3. Video recordings of this performance on Hi8 video tapes VT9707-VT9709 (Sony Hi-8); audio recordings on AT9205-AT9206; photos 92PIX02. See text 'Eronte: Maggio' di Giuseppe Coltelli, secondo il testo adottato dalla Compagnia maggianti di Piazza al Serchio (LU) (Comune di Piazza al Serchio, Quaderno 6, 1992). A photocopy of the booklet, labelled "92.3 Gragnanella" was annotated by Linda Barwick with further details of this performance.
The Piazza al Serchio company performed regularly throughout the 1990s and early 2000s in the maggio series sponsored by the Centro Tradizioni Popolari della Provincia di Lucca.
In 1992 LB recorded five performances of this Maggio, on 5/7/92, 19/7/92, 6/8/92, 16/8/92 and 23/8/92. In 1999 the Gorfigliano company also performed this Maggio (see performance at Gragnanella on VT9902).
The text by Giuseppe Coltelli is based on chivalrous themes, and some of its history is traced in Barwick, L. (1994). The Filipino Komedya and the Italian Maggio: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Related Genres of Popular Music Theatre. In A. M. Gibbs (Ed.), Masks of Time: Drama and its Contexts (pp. 71-108). Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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