Hi Alyssa, I'm doing my professional assessment this week. Could you send an official looking email stating that I took your workshop in Midland? Thanks in...
Performing at the Wisconsin Renaissance Faire and the Maryland Renaissance Festival...outside venues with real stages. One place we body mic (which is a bear...
I'm doing "Summer Commedia" with a number of my 7th and 8th grade drama students. We're going to meet every Saturday morning from ten to noon for training and...
Wendy, I teach 6-8 grade drama but will be transferring to a high school come Fall. I'd love to chat with you about your troupe and how you teach commedia. ...
Buongiorno comici, I'm Fabrizio Paladin. I was in this group before then the job took me away from computer, now I saw my friend Sam Wotten is here! well, I'm...
ciao tutti i am so glad to see my amico, fabrizio, has tracked me down on this excellent forum. i can heartily attest to his wonderfulness. and, if anyone is...
Well, thank u Sam, and u're invited in Philadelphia, i'll perform "Impresa bellissima... e pericolosa" (beatiful venture,... and dangerous)Here's the...
Good Morning, thank u Sam for ur presentation,u are invited to the show! it's on the 8th,9th,10th september.. I'll write more details as soon as possible I...
Happy birthday to us. This group is now 7 years old. We have 329 active members. Seven is often referred as the age of reason, when a child knows right from...
Hello all. I just finished several days of working through the history of this BBS. All I can say is, "Whew!" I am the American director of an English...
Hi Zannis, I am very happy to announce that I have moved my mask making studio into Los Angeles’ artists colony – The Brewery “acknowledged as the worlds...
This board seems to have really slowed down. Seems like in the early days there was alot of participation, but not so much now. Do folks still come here? I...
What is your opinion on this topic? How funny or silly should the lovers be played? Should they lean towards slapstick or poetry? Or both? At what point...
In my experience, the lovers can be funny in a more subtle sensative way. I believe that if they are too off-the-wall that the audience has trouble finding...
... I guess it is like life itself - this board ebbs and flows with activity. We have been at ebbtide lately. To promote more discussion, feel free to pose a...
Thanks for the reply! It was probably just jarring for me, reading back through the years of conversation (which zipped by) and then *CRASH* hitting realtime...
I think they should be over the top sappy... The kind that makes some people
want to vomit...;) so that the Zanni have more to comment about...and that's
not...
First, I'd basically agree with Jay. In order to make the lovers stand out from the zanni, their humor should be mostly different. I think of the lovers in...
-The lovers are ripe for satire. I don't believe they should be taken too seriously at all. Rudlin's book has a portrait of Leilo that is precious and extreme....
Funny...eh, well what is funny.....let's widen the frame of reference: my wee intellectual challenge is to try and disentangle the native italian sense of ...
Jim - Thanks for kicking off a question of interest... In my studies of the commedia I've come to break down the three strata of the characters (vecchi,...
We're making our masks with plaster (the medical kind) and have just about finished with the shaping. Now, we need to do the painting. Question: do you need...
The plaster can be covered with pva glue , use woodwork strength and then any acyrlic paint should be fine ..... for better and stronger try using paper mache...
Thanks Kim! By PVA glue, do you mean Elmer's type? -ches ... then any acyrlic paint should be fine ..... for better and stronger try using paper mache with...
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