After discussing Commedia dell'arte and the cast of major characters, this book has over fifty practice scenes to help actors become familiar with the improvisational skills of a traditional Commedia performer.

Commedia dell'arte: A Scene Study Book

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Rolfe, Bari

Performing Arts

Charlemagne Press

A training guide for actors working with masks and using masks as a rehearsal aid.

Behind the Mask

Descriptions and exercises to help actors create movement suitable to the era of period plays set in the Greek/Roman, Medieval/Early Tudor, Elizabethan/Jacobean, Restoration, Eighteenth Century, Romantic, and Victorian/Edwardian eras. Includes discussions of clothing and how it affected movement, customs and manners, salutations, and dances.

Movement for Period Plays

Over sixty selections on mime from the writings of famous mimes, theater people, dancers, choreographers, critics, historians, and teachers. Ms. Rolfe traces the historical development of mime and its present-day manifestations in theater, film, and dance. Mimes will find the art represented by Marcel Marceau, Charlie Chaplin, Jacques Lecoq, Dmitri the Clown, Buster Keaton, Etienne Decroux, Angna Enters, Lotte Goslar, Jacques Tati, Dick Van Dyke, Woody Allen. All selections are set into an historical context that outlines the history of the art.

Mimes on Miming

Commedia Dell'Arte: A Scene Study Book

Personabooks

A training guide for actors working with masks and using masks as a rehearsal aid.

Exercises for enlarging actors' physical vocabularies and expressive movement skills. Intended for actors and teachers of acting and physical theatre.

Actions Speak Louder: A Workbook for Actors

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Commedia dell'arte: A Scene Study Book

Behind the Mask

Movement for Period Plays

Mimes on Miming

Commedia Dell'Arte: A Scene Study Book

Behind the Mask

Actions Speak Louder: A Workbook for Actors