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COMMEDIA PERFORMANCE

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  1. Watch the performance below and see how many characters you can identify.
  2. How did you know they were these characters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ak5yjC07Rs

Not all of these characters are in the play (S of 2 M) and some that are have been ‘modified’ by Goldoni (Brighella for example).

As the performances are in French/Italian FOCUS on the physicality of the characters, their playfulness, energy levels, tone of their voice.

Look out for LAZZI = comic business.

THE characters OF COMMEDIA

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Watch the video above.

Take notes in your Journal about the OLD MEN (Pantaloon and Doctore (Dr).

MAKE SURE YOUR NOTES INCLUDE

  • character TRAITS [what animal or adjectives describe this character.]
  • physicality,
  • voice,
  • historical, cultural FACTS,
  • social (status) MASTER/SERVANT – what they do for a living.

Ignore Magnifico, the Witch, & Older Lovers. as these characters DO NOT APPEAR in ‘Servant’.