The story concerns the terrible complications wrought by the servant Traffaldino when he gets himself jobs with two different people at the same time. Doyle, discovering Bodie's van in the woods and noticing it is mysteriously shaking about: "He's never found himself a milkmaid?

At the Young Vic, audience and actors were engaged in a complicity of enjoyment, but at the New Ambassadors that has somewhat evaporated.Unlike Truffaldino, he is sometimes depicted as having risen through the ranks of servitude to become an innkeeper or tavern owner, as in The Servant of Two Masters.

Doyle assuming that the van shaking about must mean that Bodie's been distracted by the case and has "found himself a milkmaid" is a funny presage to a nice little scrap with the villains. Meanwhile, Agravaine, whom Arthur had briefly suspected to be the traitor, visits Morgana and reports that he has deflected Arthur's suspicions onto Gaius. So a few good scenes and funny dialogue but, overall, a weak ending to what was the third season in terms of original UK screenings. The play revolves around the wily, greedy servant Truffaldino, who in trying to fill both his purse and his stomach, attempts to serve two masters simultaneously. Watch his face - he never admits either by word or expression that he truly believes Cowley to be guilty.

Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters is rooted in the tradition of the commedia dell’arte, a highly influential form of improvisational comedy popular in Italy between the 16th and 18th centuries.

This is a lively and intelligent new adaptation by Lee Hall, with a modern free text complete with extra bawdy and juicy jokes, that loses nothing of the pathos from the original. The lads jogging through the graveyard and their daft banter, with Plum watching them, is great fun - imagining that Plum is a foreign spy: "Ze microfeelm on ze first headstone on ze left!Beatrice Rasponi – Master to Truffaldino, a lady of Turin and disguised as her brother Federigo Rasponi. Interested in keeping up appearances, Pantalone tries to conceal the presence of Federigo and Silvio from one another. Arlechinno, a cunning servant, gets a lucky break finding himself engaged in the service of two masters. Unbeknownst to anyone, Federigo is really his sister, Beatrice, in disguise, determined to settle her brother's debts and find her love, Florindo, who fled after her brother was killed. The stranger turns out to be Arthur's new manservant, George, who is highly efficient, albeit dull and obsequious.

The most famous set-piece of the play is the scene in which the starving Harlequin tries to serve a banquet to the entourages of both his masters without either group becoming aware of the other, while desperately trying to satisfy his own hunger at the same time. Servant of Two Masters Bengali adaptation by Ashim Das as 'Nawkar Shoytaan Malik Hoyraan' and stage production produced by FAME under the direction of Ashim Das in Bangladesh. This production remained staunchly faithful to the play’s roots in Italian commedia dell’arte in every respect, from costume (apart from the lack of masks) to acting style. The Servant of Two Masters (Italian: Il servitore di due padroni) is a comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni written in 1746.Morgana accuses Merlin of condemning her sister to a slow and painful death, thwarting her plans to take over Camelot, and forcing her to live in a hovel. While taking a secret shortcut through the Valley of the Fallen Kings, Merlin, Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table are ambushed by mercenaries. All that is required is “a real enthusiasm to experiment” – and that enthusiasm really shone through in this first production under director Paul Simpson, Participation Manager. The set – composed, I am told, almost entirely of parts recycled from other productions, such as the Christmas panto – was ingeniously designed by Immy Howard, with free-hanging windows providing a framework for festoons of flowers and foliage, menus, posters, drapes, portraits, curtains etc to be rapidly hung or removed to allow a quick succession of scene-changes from garden to city square to inn to hotel bedroom to merchant’s house.