CAPINO by Jim Dale & Frank Dunlop is a self-proclaimed comedy that is “a long way off from Moliere.  Taking very loosely the plot of Moliere’s “The Adventures of Scapin”, adding a touch of the Italian commedia dell’arte tradition, a bit of the 60’s audience involvement and a lot of frolicking and mischievous behavior SCAPINO appears.

The plot of the play is very simple.  Two young men fall in love but not with women that meet their fathers’ approval.  In order to get the girls they want they plead with Scapino, a servant, to help them out of their dilemma.  As Scapino says himself, “The good Lord has blessed me with quite a genius for clever ideas and inspired inventions which the less talented, in their jealousies, call deceits and trickery”.  Scapino comes to the rescue though not in any traditional way and so follows a comic madness with one clever ploy following another.
 

Left to right in front: Harold  Leboyer, Tim Libretti, Rula Gardenier;  back left to right Daniel Willen and Helen Johnson.	Bill McIntosh; Daniel Willens	Rula Gardenier, Joseph Alaimo,  Tony Muscarello, Josie Castro

 Kevin Wieter as Ottavio 

Harold Leboyer as Argante 

Daniel Willens as Geronte 

Josie Castro as Giacinta NEIU Student

     Helen Johnson as Nurse NEIU Staff 

 Denise Medina as Waitress NEIU alum 

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