Commedia Dell'Arte: An Actor's Handbook by John Rudlin (7)
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“...this remarkable book is an important resource for directors, actors, and even playwrights. Strongly recommended for all theater collections.”–Choice
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Playing Commedia offers a practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises. It provides a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre. Commedia dell'Arte sprang up in Italy in the mid-16th century, consisting of improvised comedies played out by "stock" characters, distinguished by their masks, costumes and physical attitudes. Typical figures were the clown-servant (Harlequin), the maidservant (Colombine), the young lovers, the suspicious father and the pedantic doctor. Interest in Commedia has never died, and its techniques and plots have survived into modern times in the work of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Theatre de Complicite. The book consists principally of graded games and exercises introducing us step by step to Commedia techniques. First comes the acquisition of various training skills, then comes the mask work. Sample dialogue and specific blocking ar
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“...this remarkable book is an important resource for directors, actors, and even playwrights. Strongly recommended for all theater collections.”–
Product Description
Playing Commedia offers a practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises. It provides a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre. Commedia dell'Arte sprang up in Italy in the mid-16th century, consisting of improvised comedies played out by "stock" characters, distinguished by their masks, costumes and physical attitudes. Typical figures were the clown-servant (Harlequin), the maidservant (Colombine), the young lovers, the suspicious father and the pedantic doctor. Interest in Commedia has never died, and its techniques and plots have survived into modern times in the work of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Theatre de Complicite. The book consists principally of graded games and exercises introducing us step by step to Commedia techniques. First comes the acquisition of various training skills, then comes the mask work. Sample dialogue and specific blocking ar
See all Editorial Reviews