Peter Ackroyd's Venice

The City as Theatre (1x4)

Exibido em:: Set 27, 2009

If you know little else of Venice beyond its canals, the chances are you will have heard of its carnival. Peter explores the history of theatre, parades and carnival in the City of Water, discovering the controversy behind the rebuilding of its opera house La Fenice. But, asks Ackroyd, while the fantasy of masks, secrets and double lives was a glamorous one, what did it reveal of the Venetian nature?