• Overview
• Staging information
• Translations
• Sample translations
• Production history

Scene

This is a three act play.

Staging

Suitable props and/or sound effects would be needed to draw the distinction between the village scenes and those set at the royal court. In Act II, Ciro fights a battle on a mountainside at night, and the darkness renders him unable to locate his father, Bato and Filis when they come to find him. Ciro's fall from his horse early in Act III takes place offstage and therefore does not pose any particular challenge in terms of staging. The supernatural visitor later in Act III provides scope for imaginative staging, and could be manifested as a voice, a shadow or an apparition. A comet passes overhead soon after this scene.

Music

Musicians feature in Act III, singing to herald the approaching battle and to hail Ciro as champion. Music could also be used to provide a suitably regal atmosphere for the court scenes, making a distinction between these and the scenes set in the village.

Cast information

12, plus extras - approx. 5 (musicians could double as soldiers and peasants)

Characters

• CIRO, protagonist
• ARPAGO, the king’s favourite and Filis’ brother
• ASTIAGES, the tyrant king
• BATO, the jester figure, Ciro’s friend
• MITRIDATES, Ciro’s (adoptive) father
• FILIS, a noblewoman whom Ciro loves
• FLORA, a peasant girl with whom Ciro was previously involved
• ALBANO, Ciro’s friend from the village
• RISELO, Ciro’s friend from the village
• SILVIO, Ciro’s friend from the village
• EVANDRO, Fineo’s father
• FINEO, a village lad whom Ciro ordered to be beaten
• A CAPTAIN
• A SERVANT
• PEASANTS
• MUSICIANS
• SOLDIERS

Entry submitted by NaomiWalker on 14 May 2012 and last updated by Kathleen Jeffs on 22 May 2012

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