Playing Commedia : A Training Guide to Commedia Techniques

A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises - a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre.Chapters include:* Warm-Up Games* Mime and Movement Games* Word Games* Using Face Masks* The Legacy of Commedia dell'Arte, a chapter looking at the individual Masks or characters in the traditional Commedia dell'Arte. [Publisher's text]

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