For this evaluation, I will be evaluating the group of Nick S, James M, Lachie C, Will H, and Charlie W. I think this group did very well at making their performance clear and engaging for the audience. They made very big and obvious movements (i.e. Brighella stirring potion made it clear it was a …
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Final Preparation
We were set to be assessed on Thursday and Friday but since one of our group members, Leith, could not make it on those days it was decided that we would perform on Wednesday and only Leith would be assessed and the others would perform on Thursday with James McCredie substituting as Pantalone and we …
Script/Order of Events
Here is a full list of all the scenes in order as well as transitions, characters on and extra details: Prologue Scene 1 – Split Concetti Pantalone speaking first one side Arlecchino walks in on Pantalone, eating cake Isabella speaks second on other side Colombina walks into Isabella, doing her hair (everyone exits, except Arlecchino, …
Prologue and Epilogue
Here is the prologue and the epilogue for our piece written by Tim Barrett and Caleb Gallant respectively. For our prologue and epilogue we decided we would say all the lines together and whenever a character was mentioned we would all look at them and they could step forwards. Prologue: (Dottore, Pantalone, Isabella, Tartaglia, Capitano, …
Playbuilding Pt. 3
Today, we all met up as a group for the second time (the first time I was away sick from school). We managed to create bases for all the scenes in the performance to work with later on, and we had effectively finished our first draft of the entire performance. We had also made good …
Playbuilding Pt. 2
Today in class we got to work on how we would begin our piece. We thought about what would be necessary and we decided that we would need to establish what is going on and the context of our story. We ended up choosing to have a split Concetti (monologue) between Pantalone, the groom, and …
Playbuilding
In class, we turned our brainstorming into thinking over how our story should play out. We found it would be good to use the witch as a way to create conflict in the story. We discussed how a curse or potion would fit in and we eventually landed on the idea of a love potion. …
Brainstorming
In class we all split into our groups with big pieces of paper and markers so that we could start brainstorming our ideas for scenarios and plot. We looked into ways we could have Masters in conflict to create a scene. We found that the conflict being over a lady would work well, and Finn …
Introduction
Commedia dell’arte is the main theme of this topic. It is a type of improvised comedy that was popular in the 15th-16th century. Commedia is done in mask and in reporto style. These masks are given for each different character and part of there character is shown through the features of the mask. In Commedia, …
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