The Italian Commedia And Please Be Gentle

Author : David Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135304866
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Italian Commedia and Please be Gentle written by David Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. The author proposes six similarities: characters familiar to their audience and masked, minimal properties and scenery with the focus on the actor, the "families" of performers, a sharp mind as well as an agile body, a professional living on these skills and patronage, and a knowledgeable audience. Complementing this book is the play "Please Be Gentle" which explores the various tricks and devices of Commedia Dell'Arte acting.

Author : David Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135304874
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Italian Commedia and Please be Gentle written by David Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. The author proposes six similarities: characters familiar to their audience and masked, minimal properties and scenery with the focus on the actor, the "families" of performers, a sharp mind as well as an agile body, a professional living on these skills and patronage, and a knowledgeable audience. Complementing this book is the play "Please Be Gentle" which explores the various tricks and devices of Commedia Dell'Arte acting.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Italian Commedia, And, Please be Gentle written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Griffiths
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9783718657186
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Italian Commedia written by David Griffiths and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. The author proposes six similarities: characters familiar to their audience and masked, minimal properties and scenery with the focus on the actor, the "families" of performers, a sharp mind as well as an agile body, a professional living on these skills and patronage, and a knowledgeable audience. Complementing this book is the play "Please Be Gentle" which explores the various tricks and devices of Commedia Dell'Arte acting.

Author : Donatella Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351191659
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tradition of the Actor-author in Italian Theatre written by Donatella Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The central importance of the actor-author is a distinctive feature of Italian theatrical life, in all its eclectic range of regional cultures and artistic traditions. The fascination of the figure is that he or she stands on both sides of one of theatre's most important power relationships: between the exhilarating freedom of performance and the austere restriction of authorship and the written text. This broad-ranging volume brings together critical essays on the role of the actor-author, spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present. Starting with Castiglione, Ruzante and the commedia dell'arte, and surveying the works of Dario Fo, De Filippo and Bene, among others, the contributors cast light on a tradition which continues into Neapolitan and Sicilian theatre today, and in Italy's currently fashionable 'narrative theatre', where the actor-author is centre stage in a solo performance."

Author : David Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317972015
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Training of Noh Actors and The Dove written by David Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This is the second volume of Mask: A Release if Acting Resources, and David Griffiths provides a detailed and sensitive view of the Japanese Noh theatre: historically, philosophically (with an evaluation of Zeami's treatises) and in respect of the rigorous practicalities of Noh training. The latter is given particular authority and insight because of the access Griffiths had to Noh actors in training and performance. Greatly enhanced with the author's illustrations, this volume gives one of the most accessible introductions to Noh that is available in English. Appended to the descriptive and analytic material is a short play, The Dove, written by Griffiths (and subsequently professionally performed) described as 'unashamedly' acknowledging its Noh influence. This one-woman price is a sensitive and evocative drama with subtle references to its cultural source. Is potential as an exercise in mask work is excellent.

Author : David Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135304807
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touch and the Masquerades of Nigeria written by David Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9783718657131
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting Through Mask written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume of his "Mask: A Release of Acting Resources" David Griffiths examines the present state of actor-training, and surveys past experiments and styles developed by Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Grotowski and Brecht. He recommends a way in which the standards of performance skills in theatre may parallel those already established in other performing arts such as music and dance. The author's philosophy as a theatre practitioner is the mask and here he explains the special skills required to animate it, helping the reader by extensive and cogent use of his own illustrations.

Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108670571
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commedia dell'Arte in Context written by Christopher B. Balme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has taken place, generated mainly by a number of distinguished Italian scholars. Their work, in which they have radically separated out the myth from the history of the phenomenon remains, however, largely untranslated into English (or any other language). The present volume gathers together these Italian and English-speaking scholars to synthesize for the first time this research for both specialist and non-specialist readers. The book is structured around key topics that span both the early modern period and the twentieth-century reinvention of the commedia dell'arte.

Author : Arno Lehman Bader
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Italian Commedia Dell' Arte in England, 1600-1700 written by Arno Lehman Bader and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: