- Everybody was on the same level, when behind 'the mask'
- "Give a hypocrite a mask to wear, and he will be rendered incapable of further lying"
- 16th century
- masters of improvisation rooted in physical training
- One stock character per actor (archetypes)
- improvise around scenarios embellis basic plot outlines with physical routine known as LAZZI
- Virutoso linguistic digressions (verbal riffs of standup comedians)
- "A model for improvisatory and movement orientated performance."
- Actor centered theatre (acrobatics, body training, improvisation ensemble, and staging techniques)
- Street psychology
- Through comedy, we can glimpse tragedy (Charlie Chaplin)
- buster keaton, laurel and hardy, marx brothers
- Le jeu of Lecoq
- Driving force is not what to play but how it should be played.
- Four principles for commedia actors
- stillness
- awareness
- communication with the audeince
- ability to express feelings and thought through body
- Never touch the mask
- makes it look unreal
- Present an illusion
- Qualities of Commedia Del'arte
- Willingness to work as a team
- seize the moment of opportunity
- ability to act with truth and sincerity Grantham
- Pantalone
- middle aged man
- greedy
- miserly/protective of money
- husband deceived from a young wife
- competes with his son
- overly protective father guarding his young daughter from suitors
- like a chicken
- Dottore - pig
- elderly gentleman
- law professor
- sometimes a rival with pantalone
- lacks common sense
- good with double talk and jargon
- stutterer like priest in princess bride
- thinks out loud
- big
- studies a lot yet knows so little
- Arlecchino/Harlequin
- clever
- perceiver
- illiterate
- good schemer
- he is a Zanni
- curious of things
- agile
- stupid but has grace
- not really evil, but mischievous
- shape shifter
- never thinks about consequences
- Zanni
- proto clowns
- like animals
- always sleepy or hungry
- pre verbal
- Innamorati/innamoratae
- less creature-like
- beautifully dressed young lovers
- speak refined language
- no mask/ lead with chest, parody of ballet, use breath and points of lightness
- always in-love
- high status
- Capitano
- peacock
- bloodhound/mastiff
- boastful, woardly spaniard who brags of battles he never fought
- Pulcinella
- hump-backed
- doltish male character
- Pedrolino
- 'perrot'
- awkward
- simple
- tense
- effeminate
- devil wears prada stanley tucci
- cuckolded
- Scaramuccia
- mustached servant
- sometimes clever
- sometimes cruel
- Senora - no mask
- bossy
- bawdy
- offers herself in exchange for money/high status
- vain
- proud
- goes after men
- forever 29 years old
- Fontesca/columbina/clarice-fox
- serving maid
- clever
- high spirited flirt
- often moving
- maid of the innamoratae
- corresponded with alecchino
- ballet-like movement
- carried a basket and sometimes a tambourine
- Working with the mask
- cheat up (put head up)
- use physical characteristics of the mask
- (if you have a big nose do it with a lot of rooster)
- make the mask come alive
- don't touch the mask
- highlights the fact that it is not real
- don't be subtle
- Scapino
- rasclaly
- confused by everything
- falls in love for the fun of it
- flippant about love
- never deeply evolved
- obeys every impulse that he feels
- forgets a lot
- has a hate towards men
- Barghella
- cunning
- corrupt
- fear/maniupulation
- knows weak points
- exploits
- never a victim
- like a boss of the Zanni
- Lazzi
- conversations
- little comic interludes
- moments of humor grabbed between scenes/during scenes
- something foolish/witty/metaphorical in word or action
- stage tricks
- comic stage business
- comic routines planned or unplanned that could be performed in any one of dozens on plays.
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