Love In Craig Lucas's The Light In The Piazza

In Craig Lucas’s musical “The Light in the Piazza” it tells the tale of a girl, Clara, and her mother, Margaret, visiting Italy. Clara meets and falls in love with a boy around her age named Fabrizio, but her mother doesn’t think it is a good idea for them to be together due to Clara’s mental state. As the play goes on Clara and Fabrizio still want to get married. Fabrizio’s family, the Naccarelli family, also want them to get married, the only people not in agreement is Margaret and her husband, Roy. Margaret eventually gives in, seeing how happy Clara would be and knowing she would be safe with the Naccarelli family. After many twists, turns, and scene changes, the story comes with a favorable ending. Love is prominent throughout the show as it is found, grows, and gets messed with, but in the end the laws of love cannot be bent. As Clara and Fabrizio fall in love, there are numerous obstacles that could stand in their way of being together, but in the end those obstacles never stop them. The first conflict is the language barrier; Clara speaks English while Fabrizio
For example, when Fabrizio attempts to stand up after sitting, he struggles to get off the chair. This may be sheer clumsiness, but sometimes in the case of love clumsiness is a side effect. This case of love clumsiness is another unofficial law of love that cannot be warped. In some cases the actors would act a certain way or go to a certain spot because their characters were being driven by love. A character in specific would be Clara, at the beginning of the second act she sat on top of a rock and pounded on it with her shoe. She did this because she wanted to be with Fabrizio, but her mother was dragging her around to other places away from him. She loved Fabrizio, she was upset to not be near him, therefore her emotions controlled her actions, love being one of the controlling