In our recently announced and currently available Digital Intro Class to Commedia dell’Arte, we talk about Archetypes VS Stereotypes and thought it was a great thing to share with more folks.
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Let’s hit some broad strokes here. A lot of people have never heard of commedia dell’arte. Those who have often get a very specific interpretation by an individual or company. That’s because it’s old, it died for a long time, and now people have fallen in love with it again in different ways.
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In the show, actor Rachel Brodeur and I jump back and forth between over 20 characters, including the pilot, air hostesses, passengers, hijacker, reporters, Portuguese shepherd children, and even the Virgin Mary herself…
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One thing we are always working on in the company is discovering new archetypes from our world all around us. Now working on [DIGITAL] Top Rung, I had the opportunity to make some new masks for some of the new archetypes and then characters of the show.
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I am OBSESSED with a great wig. I think they are to be strongly consider when creating a masked Commedia character. Yes, you can do a hat, for on the head… but why not consider a wig?!
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I cannot shake this feeling like maybe Commedia is really bad at intersectionality.
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Commedia characters do not have objectives the way traditional acting classes talk about them, they have base needs, or drives.
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We got a question on the blog that sparked a really interesting conversation…
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There is more to language than what is spoken, and what is spoken may not always be what you think it will be.
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