Gianni Schicchi

Adapted from the Puccini opera. When it is discovered that wealthy patriarch, Buoso Donati, left all his money to the church, his family hires a local peasant to pose as the dead man and dictate a new will.
This script is available via email. It will be produced by Best Medicine Rep in May 2027.

Pictured: Laura S. Ferro, Jim Gagne, Scott Courlander, and Suzie Mellring
in the Georgetown Theatre Company production

"If you like zany farces with bawdy jokes, high-flyin' slapstick comedy and nonstop 100 mph action, Gianni Schicchi is the best tonic for your summer doldrums. ...There was never a point in the show when someone wasn't laughing hysterically."
—Leonard Hughes, THE WASHINGTON POST

"Gianni Schicchi has all the elements of good comedy: wit, timing, and an analysis of the consequences of crime that probes the complexity of sin and as it relates to God and man."
--Rona Hirsch, THE BALTIMORE SUN