This was, to me, a very
enjoyable production of a rather strange tale. Two brothers separated
as children and estranged from each other vie for the affections of
the same woman. The one who wins the lady's heart has been raised by
gypsies. He is captured by the other – who inherited their father's
title of Count - and executed. At this final point, it is time for
his true identity to be revealed by his adoptive mother – herself
on a lifelong mission to avenge her own mother's death at the hands
of the two boys' father.
To some degree the
unlikelihood of the unfolding events gets in the way. The two men know
there is something between them early on but do nothing about it –
certainly the one raised by gypsies has been given all the salient
information by his adoptive mother.
Nonetheless, it was a
magical evening, dramatically staged.
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