Commedia Plays: Scenarios - Scripts - Lazzi

By Barry Grantham

Book Overview

A collection of short commedia dell'arte plays, sketches, and exercises for use in the classroom and drama workshop. Each play has a detailed introduction and is presented in both outline form and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854598716
• ISBN13: 9781854598714
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An invaluable resource for anyone teaching commedia!

This is a fantastic resource for anyone who teaches commedia. It has a number of scripts that are in scenario and script versions which is excellent for showing students the difference between a scenario and a script and also excellent for giving students a chance to "get the flavour" of commedia by using the scripts and then experimenting with the scenarios. The second section of the book has a detailed account of lazzi and how to perform them. The aforementioned scripts refer to moments where these lazzi may be integrated into performance. I highly reccommend this text to any teacher of high school commedia!