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Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition - Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin (Paperback): John Rudlin,... Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition - Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin (Paperback)
John Rudlin, Antonio Fava
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in commedia dell'arte - master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin. These discussions were recorded during three recent visits by Fava to Rudlin's rural retreat in south west France. They take in all of commedia dell'arte's most striking and enduring elements - its masks, its scripts and scenarios, and most outstandingly, its cast of characters. Fava explores the role of each stock Commedia character and their subsequent incarnations in popular culture, as well as their roots in prominent figures of their time. The lively and wide-ranging conversations also take in methods of staging commedia dell'arte for contemporary audiences, the evolution of its gestures, and the collective nature of its theatre-making. This is an essential book for any student or practitioner of commedia dell'arte - provocative, expansive wisdom from the modern world's foremost exponent of the craft.

Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition - Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin (Hardcover): John Rudlin,... Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition - Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin (Hardcover)
John Rudlin, Antonio Fava
R1,797 Discovery Miles 17 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in commedia dell'arte - master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin. These discussions were recorded during three recent visits by Fava to Rudlin's rural retreat in south west France. They take in all of commedia dell'arte's most striking and enduring elements - its masks, its scripts and scenarios, and most outstandingly, its cast of characters. Fava explores the role of each stock Commedia character and their subsequent incarnations in popular culture, as well as their roots in prominent figures of their time. The lively and wide-ranging conversations also take in methods of staging commedia dell'arte for contemporary audiences, the evolution of its gestures, and the collective nature of its theatre-making. This is an essential book for any student or practitioner of commedia dell'arte - provocative, expansive wisdom from the modern world's foremost exponent of the craft.

The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell'Arte - Actor Training, Improvisation, and the Poetics of Survival (Paperback, New Ed):... The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell'Arte - Actor Training, Improvisation, and the Poetics of Survival (Paperback, New Ed)
Antonio Fava
R1,099 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R118 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nobody says Shakespeare is dead. Antonio Fava tells us, but Commedia, they say, is dead. Why? Because clearly, he goes on, we have Shakespeare's texts, but nobody knows what to do with the improvisation that is the basis of the ""Commedia dell'Arte"", despite massive documentation. This book by Fava, one of the few living master teachers of ""Commedia dell'Arte"", is the first aesthetic and methodological study of the traditional Italian theater form - the first to describe, in a precise and practical way, what Commedia is and what it should be. The mask - as object, symbol, character, theatrical practice, even spectacle itself - is the central metaphor around which Fava builds his discussion of structure, themes, characters, and methods. Drawing on twenty years of research conducted through his work as performer, director, mask maker, and scholar, he offers extensive practical, philosophical, and technical guidelines to performing the stock characters of ""Commedia"", observing its structure, extracting its poetics, exploring its themes, and using the mask. A densely layered text combining historical fact, personal experience, philosophical speculation, and passionate opinion, and including copious illustrations - period drawings, prints, and color photographs of leather Commedia masks made by Fava himself - The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte is a rich work of singular insight into one of the world's most venerable forms of theater.

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