My name in Aaron Johnson and I am the Artistic Director of the Austin Commedia Society. We are a new troupe dedicated to reviving and updating Commedia ...
Hey Aaron, I checked out your stie on six degrees a few weeks ago. To be honest, I was confused by what I read, I could not figure out where you guys were...
Hi ho zanni4, et al...<br><br>Sorry everybody, I have been a little preoccupied of late. Summer has finally come to Vancouver Island (on the coast of British ...
One of the great things I find about Commedia is how the archetypes and techniques are so transferable to other plays. I find that aspects of my Commedia work...
This is why I missed you, you and I think alike. One of the basic points I try to get across to my students is to look for those architypes in all theatre and...
Go buy this book: Bravo, Zan Angelo! - A Commedia Dell"Arte Tale with Story & Pictures by Niki Daly. $16 US. 1998 Capetown, South Africa. Farrar, Straus &...
I've been thinking about the cartoon link alot these days, in particular the old Warner Brothers cartoons (Looney Toons). I was thinking the other day about my...
Hey everyone. Nice to read those whole slew of posts! Anyway, would anyone like to have a chat sometime? Here's the next chat time. Hope that it works for ...
We will be using the computer for other work at that time and day, but it is generally a good hour for me.<br>P.S. I vote for Bugs as Brighella, he's too sharp...
Hi everybody<br><br>I just added some photos from our shows with Kompani Komedi (my Commedia dell'Arte-group in Stockholm, Sweden). The photos are from three ...
What do you do for music? Sound effects? Live? Recorded? None? What are you trying to accomplish with your music? This came up tonight in discussion at my...
Micke -<br>I really enjoyed perusing the photos of your group - they have a great feel and vitality to them - my kind of commedia! Where did you train? My...
Aha! John Achorn, I know your name because I married one of your actresses, Marilyn Prince from your Theatre of Marvels. She still raves about you guys, it all...
My drama teacher gave me this essay question to do, and quite frankly, I'm stumped!<br><br>The use of the lazzi shows that the other propeties of Commedia ...
Musically I have an ace up my sleve in that I am also a composer. I studied composition for the stage while I attended theatre school, and since then I have ...
"Sounds great!" Thanks for the recorder tip- brilliant. Thanks for the source ideas, too. Music adds so much and gives the actors the confidence to avoid ...