Playing Commedia
A Training Guide to Commedia Techniques
Description
A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises - a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre.
Chapters include:
* Warm-Up Games
* Mime and Movement Games
* Word Games
* Using Face Masks
* The Legacy of Commedia dell'Arte, a chapter looking at the individual Masks or characters in the traditional Commedia dell'Arte.