Gli Ultimi Gattopardi

Language: Italian

Genre: Historical

Format: one shot

Location: Villa Mazzotti, Chiari (BS)

Gli Ultimi Gattopardi

08/02/2020 - 08/02/2020

Genre: Historical

Format: one shot

Location: Villa Mazzotti, Chiari (BS)

Abstract

Inspired by the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa novel and Luchino Visconti movie “Il Gattopardo”, the larp is a homage to the Visconti Cinema, to the melodrama, and to a lot of literary sources. Painting with historical accuracy a conflicting era of changes like the Italian Risorgimento, it starts with the magnificent atmosphere of a great dance, gradually slipping into a drama of crime and violent passion, filled with duels, intrigues, dark secrets, and revenges. Players tasted both the shining part—with wonderful costumes and waltzes—and the tragedy behind it. Set in a beautiful historical villa in the North of Italy (though the story is set in Sicily, featuring a diplomatic wedding), the event was written with great attention to the description of characters and their backgrounds. In an afternoon and an evening, it provided time to feel the change of mood.