In a pair or group of 3 create a short presentation showing everything you know about Comedia Dellarte Slapstick comedy What is slapstick The term actually comes from a prop carried by ID: 560083
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In a pair or group of 3- create a short presentation showing everything you know about
Comedia
Dell’arte
.Slide2
Slapstick comedySlide3
What is slapstick?
The term actually comes from a prop carried by
Arlechino
- which was a slapstick.
Slapstick
is a style of
humour
involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of common sense
.
This usually involves someone getting hurt.Slide4
Rules of slapstick
Exaggeration
Repetition
Dramatic Irony
Rule of 3
In
Commedia
, a joke is usually made of how any violence/ falls are fake- this is done by using large movements and over the top sound effectsSlide5
lazzi
Lazzi
is a short improvised moment purely for entertainment, this might be-
Humorous
remarks (off text
impro
)
Acrobatics
Juggling
WrestlingSlide6
Improv
Create a scene using characters of your choice-
Lovers pass messages to each other through
Arlechinno
- he messes it up. They punish him for it.
Dottore
is inflicted with an injury and misdiagnoses himself,
Colambinna
takes great pleasure in inflicting these silly treatments on him (classic is a bellows in the bum)Slide7
Servant of two masters
This is the classic Commedia play (even though it was written 200 years after the commedia hey day, but then no one wrote plays then, it was all scenarios to improvise.
We’ll read a bit and
descide
which character is
which etc.