THE DRAMATURGY OF COMMEDIA DELL?ARTE IBD

Sinopse

This book examines Commedia dellâÇÖArte as a performative genre, and one that should be analysed through the framework of dramaturgy and dramaturgical practice.This volume examines the way Commedia has been explored in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and details its reinventorsâÇÖ dramaturgic approaches, both focusing in on specific examples such as Jacques Lecoq, Dario Fo and Antonio Fava, and also suggesting how modern discoveries may aid the study of historical performance practice. It also discusses how audiences read and receive masks, the relationship between the different masked and unmasked roles, the range of performance activities that come under the umbrella term âÇÖimprovisationâÇÖ, the performative construction of a role performed âÇÖliveâÇÖ from a scenario, the role of language and embodied locality in performance, and the performative relationship between performative commedia and literary tragicomedy.Its focus is dramaturgy, and so itámay be read both as a text describing various theatrical practices from 1946 onwardsáand as aáway of creating oneâÇÖs own contemporary Commedia practice. It is an important read for any student or scholar of Commedia dellâÇÖArte and theatre historians grappling with the status of this unique and influential performance form.