Product details
- ISBN 9781854594662
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 154 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Barry Grantham is a performer, director and teacher, and a leading British exponent of Commedia Dell'Arte. He has performed and given masterclasses in Norway, Sweden, Holland, Germany and Italy itself at the Teatro Municipiali, Regio Emilia. He has appeared at the Royal Opera House and Glyndbourne, and worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is the author of two books on Commedia, Playing Commedia and Commedia Plays.
