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The Character Study: Voice & Physicality

 

The Italian Cultural Institute and the Charioteer Theatre present “The Academy of Commedia dell’Arte”. This event will bring you closer to the fine art of the 16th Century Italian craft, which involves skills such as physical theatre, mime and improvisation.

The first event will see the partecipation of actor and teacher Enrico Bonavera with a lecture and masterclass.

 

Lecture – The Character Study: Voice & Physicality

6 April 6:15pm -7:15pm

Venue: Artiscience Library, Summerhall, Edinburgh

The lecture will illustrate the popular and acclaimed theatre form that Commedia dell’Arte

FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!

 

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Masterclass – The Character Study: Voice & Physicality

7 – 8 April 2018 (10am – 5pm)  

Venue: Upper Church, Summerhall, Edinburgh

Explore the history, body language, motivations and social classes of Commedia dell’Arte characters with Enrico Bonavera. This masterclass will cover the physicality and voice of the Old Man, the Lover and the Servant. It will also cover the many variations of those characters including Zanni, Pantalone, Dottore, Isabella, Capitano, Arlecchino and others. Participants will analyse the interaction between Commedia characters, the social rules and motivations driving their behaviours. Participants will improvise Commedia canovaccis (basic texts) and create their own scenarios.

Enrico Bonavera is a tutor for the Commedia dell’Arte Academy at Piccolo Teatro in Milan, directed by Ferruccio Soleri, and Shapkin Theatre School in Moscow. He was awarded Best Supporting Actor at the Borgio Verezzi theatre festival for his Arlecchino in Carlo Goldoni’s I due gemelli veneziani. He won the ‘Golden Arlequin’ in Mantua – an award previously held by Marcel Marceau, Dario Fo, Ferruccio Soleri, and Carolyn Carlson. Enrico Bonavera studied with Eugenio Barba and Jerzy Grotowski, and is known to have performed as Brighella and Arlecchino in Giorgio Strehler’s Servitore di due padroni at Piccolo Teatro of Milan. He teaches regularly also in Lyon, Pisa and Genoa.

For more information and costs please visit the following link

  • Organizzato da: Charioteer Theatre
  • In collaborazione con: Italian Cultural Institute