Unit+2+Commedia

=COMMEDIA DELL ARTE :) = =**Character** Analysis =

=** 28/03/11 ** =

- -**Obsessed with money** - -**Very seedy character** - -**Creepy** - -**Upper class- the people who have money** **- bit of a pedophile** || **Smaller nose because he is upper class.** **Wears a cloak with red lines so he can open it up.** || **Crow or a vulture** || **-knees up high** **-move tongue lots** **-bob neck a lot** **-very hunched** **-occasionally he explodes when he’s shocked and surprised** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**Thinks he is intellectual-he’s not!** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**Speaks with a posh accent** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**Uses lots of huge words** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**Stupid use of big words** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**Bamboozles everyone with his ‘smartness’** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**The one that sells the bottle of illicsa. He sells them wart cream.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**Very arrogant** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**Really long nose because he is really dumb** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**Where’s a big black cape** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Duck** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-doesn’t move much** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-waddles as he walks** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-he talks and talks and talks therefore making him move around in circles.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-uses his mouth a lot** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-mouth movements very poof poof poof poof poof.** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-Represents the military** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-he thinks highly of himself** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-speaks with a Spanish accent** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-very violent** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-very gory** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-he doesn't know what he's talking about (bravado)** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-he hasn't ever done anything he talks about.** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Big sword, big hat, big feather,** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**big boots. (all of these things are just for show)** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**EVERYTHING BIG** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Big nose because he is dumb** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Stallion who dances and poses** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-makes big gestures** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-chest out** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-legs kicking** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-over the top movements** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-speaks very stupidly** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-slang type accent** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-cynical** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-usually lower class but sometimes upper class, he drifts like the wind** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-snide** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">-**cuts people down, enjoys insulting people** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">** -prankster ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Big nose because he's dumb** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**fox** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**- holds his hands back** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-doesn't want to get to involved** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-slow and more lyrical movement** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-lots of mouth problems** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-he gets really excited** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-obsessed with food** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-he loves sausages because they are filled with meat** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**-Arlechino's friend (but thinks he's smarter... but brighella isn't)** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**- big belly** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-really dumb** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-huge nose** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**dog- Labrador because they are very bouncy** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-sticks his belly out** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**- jumps up and down** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-very exaggerated eating movements** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-has a stutter** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-it means stutterer** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-sometimes upper and lower class character** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-is a messenger** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-confuses everyone** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-he got called porky pig later on because he is very similar** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-not that bigger nose but is a little dumb as he has a stutter.** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Pig** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-uses his hands alot** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-uses his mouth heaps and doesn't stop talking** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**Often tricking other characters so --that he wins** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**He’s humble** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- -**He represents the working class.** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">- **Long nose because he is lower class. The bigger the nose the dumber they are** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Like a cat, very quick and sly** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-used his neck a lot** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-used his tongue lots** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-hand out** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-side to side movement** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**-projecting in a ¾ angle** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**- very quick and sly, very sleek movements** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">** Character ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">** Mask and costume ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">** Animal Likeness ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">** Movement ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Pantalone**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Il Dottore**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Il Capitano**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Pulcinella**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Brighella**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Tartaglia**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Arlechino**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">GOOD WEBSITE FOR STOCK CHARACTERS. []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Notes** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-indent: -0.25in;">- People around this time were peasants <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-indent: -0.25in;">- It worked because it made everyone laugh <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-indent: -0.25in;">- People expected to see certain characters <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-indent: -0.25in;">- All about laughs <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-indent: -0.25in;">- The peasants despise the wealthy, the intellectuals that is why they are seen as greedy or creepy. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-indent: -0.25in;">- All about toilet jokes

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Drama homework- role of woman. 28/03/11 =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Women were present in Commedia dell'arte.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Women actually played women's roles in the plays. An example of a woman's character is Isabella, she was usually Pantalone's daughter and was young and attractive. She represented the bird or flamingo and was upper class.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">There were usually seven men and three women.

<span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Homework - to be completed by Week 1 Term 2 <span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">Complete the following research and publish it on your WIKISPACE.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1. <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Make notes under the following headings? (Do not **plagiarise -** **remember turnitin knows!!**) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">· Commedia dell’arte – When, where and why? (What was happening in the world when Commedia emerged?) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">· Subjects and content of Commedia <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">· Comedy in Commedia - what was funny? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">· The masks of Commedia - what did they look like?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2. Research Stock Characters: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">· What is a **stock character**? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">· Who were the stock characters of Commedia dell’arte? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">· Include graphics to illustrate the mask and costume of the following Commedia characters: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Pantalone Brighella Il Dottore Il Capitano Arlecchino

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">3. Find and upload to your wikispace a **video file** of commedia in performance.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">4. What role did IMPROVISATION play in Commedia dell’arte?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-indent: 0px;">**Question 1.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">** · Commedia dell’arte – When, where and why? (What was happening in the world when Commedia emerged?) ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This ‘species’ of play had a really long life in Italy. In fact it was from around the 14th to 18th centuries. Commedia delll’arte was flourishing in the 16th and 17th centuries. Commedia dell’arte was used to provide comic relief for the audience.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">· Subjects and content of Commedia <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The main subjects in Commedia dell’arte were. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-left: 22.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Disgraceful love affairs <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-left: 22.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Trickery

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">In Commedia dell’arte the subject was decided, the characters decided, their relation to each other and the situation is decided. This is all decided before the play. After the general outline was filled out there was an opportunity for actors to vary and establish their parts. It was hard for the actors because they had to find the right words to create emotions in the audience. Actors had to study their characters seriously because Commedia dell’arte is all about improvising.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">· Comedy in Commedia - what was funny? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Commedia dell’arte was mainly slapstick humour this was also referred to as ‘Lazzi’ It often didn’t even relate to the play.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-left: 22.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">· The masks of Commedia - what did they look like? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-left: 4.5pt;">The mask of Commedia dell’arte were all different for each stock character. If you wanted to tell the difference between a lower class and an upper class character you would look at the mask the character was wearing. The bigger the nose the more dumb the character was. The masks were also rubber to allow the actor to use their face which showed different emotions.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Question 2.**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Research Stock Characters:

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">· What is a **stock character**? <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0.25in 0in;">The actors of commedia dell’arte represented permanent social types, for example, foolish old men, devious servants, or military officers full of false bravado. Characters such as Pantalone and Arlecchino, the mischievous servant from Bergamo, began as parodies on Italian "types" and became the models of many of the favorite characters of 17th– and 18th–century European theatre.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">· Who were the stock characters of Commedia dell’arte? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Pantalone <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Il Dottore <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Il Capitano <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Pulcinella <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Brighella <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Tartaglia <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">· Arlechino

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;">**Characters** <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Pantalone**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">IL Dottore

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Il Capitano.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pulcinella

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Brighella

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tartaglia

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Arlechino

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Question 3.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">media type="youtube" key="95EzlJDaPZo" height="390" width="480" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px;">4. What role did IMPROVISATION play in Commedia dell’arte? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px;">Improvisation played a huge role in Commedia dell'arte because all of the play was made up. The actors had to know who their characters were as they had to be ready to answer any questions made up by the other characters or to just act like their character did. For example. If someone was playing Brighella they would have to know that Brighella loved sausages and that was all he cared about, this means they could tie this in with any dialogue.

=<span style="color: #0500ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px;">Notes on Faulty Towers. = =<span style="color: #00ff19; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px;">Stock Characters in fawlty towers (personality/movement/voice etc) =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Wife-Cyvil Fawlty: nags, never satisfied, bossy <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Husband- Basil Fawlty: jokes around, sense of humour <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Health inspector: grim, proper, takes note of everything <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Chef: Very relaxed, non hygienic , <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Manuel: dumb, doesn't speak English, childish <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Polly: blonde hair, pretty <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Major: gutsy, retired old man, hunts with every opportunity, still thinks he is in the war

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Comic Moments <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 23px;">Hot plate <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Cracker with rat

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**__EXAMPLE OF LAZZI/GOOD SCENARIO :)__** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**__HOMEWORK:__** **Historical Context (this must be uploaded to your wiki by Friday 29th April)**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Research Commedia dell’Arte and locate the following information. You may respond in essay or short answer form:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">1. What does **Commedia dell’Arte** mean? Commedia dell'Arte is translated to comedy of art
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">2. Where did it come from? Commedia dell'Arte originated in Italy. It came from the street performers in Italy in 1545
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">3. Provide an outline of what was happening in Italy and Europe at this time – focus on political / military events. Discuss how this impacted on the troupes.The 16th Century in Europe was a time of change. This century was the beginning of a new and modern era and it saw revolution in nearly all aspects of life. The renaissance in Italy was at its peaking point and was spreading north even arriving in places like England. Life was good for the normal citizen, the economy was getting stronger. Geniuses were emerging all over each other producing scientific discovery after discovery. New technological ideas like gunpowder were changing the means of warfare. The printing press created a massive media revolution. This would've had a huge impact on the troupes because everything around them was changing, everything was becoming newer and more creative which allowed Commedia dell'ARte to come into play as a new form of Art.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">4. Describe the living conditions for peasants in Italy at this time. The economy was doing very well at the beginning of the 16th century, even the normal peasant was able to afford food. People were being optimistic about their future which resulted in them having larger families therefore making creating a bigger population. However the mixture of a growing population and inflation saw a price rise that cut wages by half by about mid 16th century. The changing conditions of the economy saw many peasants lose their land therefore resulting in poverty. Homelessness was on the rise and towns felt there as a crisis emerging when trying to deal with the poor. At the end of the 16 century a peasant would hardly ever see meat and many had reached a state of despair. All of this poverty resulted in peasant's living conditions being over crowded as they had large families as well as being very basic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">5. Find images of upper class Italian citizens. What conclusions can you draw about their lifestyle and wealth?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> 6. Where was commedia played? Why was this preferred? Commedia was performed outdoors in city and town centers. The troupes brought equipment, props, costumes, ladders and curtains. The stages were usually built quite high which allowed the spectators a clear view of the performance and also giving actors some room for storage underneath.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">7. Why was commedia such a popular form of theatre at this time? Commedia dell'arte was popular because
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">it was funny
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">It was all improvise
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">lazzi was used
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">It was a nice thing to go and watch during the hard times people were going through.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Explain why stock characters are used by contemporary script writers and why they continue to engage modern audiences

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Stock characters are used by contemporary script writers because <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Stock characters are recognisable to the audience. This means when people are watching a performance they instantly know that the character is on stage is snobby or dumb or sly etc because they know that stock character.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**__PART A: Character Analysis__** **(uploaded to wiki by Friday 6th May)** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Research **one** of the following characters of the Commedia dell’arte:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Pantalone, Il Dottore, Arlecchino, Brighella, Il Capitano, The Lovers, Zanni, Pulchinella or another of your choice. <span style="background-color: #55a8f7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Brighella.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**__I would like to play both Il Dottore and Brighella.__**

<span style="background-color: #00c6ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**REALLY HELPFUL DOCUMENT I FOUND ONLINE :)**

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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__**Brighella**__ =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This is the same character you will be playing in the performance for the practical part of the task.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Find a selection of costumes and masks for your chosen character on the internet and choose one you like –print it out

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[[image:brighella_mask.jpg]]
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I like this one because the cheeks are fat which represents the fact that he eats a lot. I also like the bits of hair that have been added on because I imagine Brighella as a big, fat, friendly and hairy man. Seeing he likes sausages, I sort of think of him as an Austrian or German man because I think of Augustus Gloop's father as Augustus Gloop's dad was big and fat and hairy and looked like the man that would eat quite a lot but doesn't possess the personality of Brighella. ===

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**I like this mask because the facial features are very distinct and the colour is red which is a bouncy and vibrant colour.**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I really like this mask because the facial hair really adds to the mask and actually makes the nose look bigger. The cheeks are very distinct and chubby because of course Brighella is a fat person. I also like the way the mask has a huge wart at the top of the mask because this can represent the poverty aspect as Brighella if he was wealthy probably would've got that removed as it is huge! ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__Costumes__
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This is the main costume used for Brighella. However I don't really like it as I don't think it conveys his bright and bouncy personality. I like the stripes pattern because they represent the outgoing part of his personality however I think the colours should be a little brighter. Arlechinno is a very bouncy and jester type character andhis costume is very bright so it doesn't make sense to me that Brighella is bouncy and is stuck in bland colours. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I think red and black or <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">yellow and blue <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">or even black and orange. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">He just needs something to make his bubbly personality stand out more.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Describe and draw the costume you chose for your own performance in character and **justify** your decisions

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Brighella is in the middle class section. He is the boss of Zanni and Arlechinno. He is good at pretending to be many different things and enjoys giving advice to characters such as the lovers. In any scene Brighella always adapts to the situation. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Brighella is a very bouncy character. He moves by in a way jumping in an excited way. The actor playing him has to create the look of a fat stomach because of course Brighella is a bit of a big eater. His feet are constantly moving back and forward as he is a bouncy character. When he walks his legs stick out to either side but his head remains in the same place. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Brighella is the fat, friendly and bouncy character of Commedia dell'arte. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">He is very friendly, a little intelligent and loves eating-especially sausages! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">He is a kind character and his status is always secure as he is never a victim.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Explain the status of your character and his/her relationship to other commedia characters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Describe how the character moves
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Describe the character’s personality

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">//NB: Research means finding relevant information (through the internet/CD Rom/Encyclopaedia’s etc), reading it and using it to inform your understanding of the topic. Do not plagiarise – that is, do not copy other people’s work. Put your research into your own words and include a **__bibliography__** of the materials you use – remember Turnitin knows!//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">//Bibliography://

<span style="background-color: #fe9c06; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**I actually found a lot of different people's wikis on commedia dell'arte and in particular character summaries. If you search 'commedia dell'arte in the search wikis box heaps of information comes up. I also searched 'Brighella' and heaps of character summaries and scenarios came up.**

<span style="color: #0e774a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 13px;">tedb.byu.edu/files/lesson/CommediaCharacters1.doc- however for this website they got it from another website which only had the source and no publication information. This is the document that is on my wiki under the Part A heading.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[]- no author specified or date

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://brighella.wikispaces.com/ another wiki page.. with no author

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://commediagroup3.wikispaces.com/Stock+Characters - wiki page only states sources they used

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">__**Il Dottore**__ =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This is the same character you will be playing in the performance for the practical part of the task.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Find a selection of costumes and masks for your chosen character on the internet and choose one you like –print it out

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__**Masks**__
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I like this mask because it actually reminds you of a doctor mainly because of the mustache but the lines on his forehead and his eyes make him look old and wise in a way even though he really isn't. ===

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===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This costume represents Il Dottore well because he is a doctor and thinks he is all that. His cape makes him look smarter than he actually is and the stick is his probably what he uses to 'lecture' people about his potions and remedies with. ===

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===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This costume also represents Dotorre well because you think of him as a chunky man who thinks he is smart. His cape makes him look smart and so does the collar around his neck and so do his shoes and stockings. All of his clothes make him look wealthy. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">Explain the status of your character and his/her relationship to other commedia characters

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Il Dottore has a wealthy status and is high on the social scale with Il Capitano and Pantelone. Officially he is a doctor but realistically he has no idea what he is talking about. If a patient was to visit the doctor the most likely diagnosis they would recieve is that they are pregnant, it wouldn't matter if they were male or female. If he didn't think they were pregnant they would be 'dead' even if they were walking around. The other characters in the scene wouldn't doubt Dottore's diagnosis because he is supposedly a 'doctor'.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">Describe how the character moves

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Il Dottore moves in a penguin like way- so he waddles. Seeing that he is quite a plump character he can't move very fast which causes the waddling effect. He talks with his hands which makes him look smarter and makes him look like he knows what he's talking about.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">Describe the character’s personality

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Il Dottore is very proper and thinks highly of himself- stuck up <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">He has a seriously huge ego as he thinks he knows everything.

<span style="background-color: #fcff38; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">**I actually found a lot of different people's wikis on commedia dell'arte and in particular character summaries. If you search 'commedia dell'arte in the search wikis box heaps of information comes up. I also searched 'Il Dottore' and heaps of character summaries and scenarios came up.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">//Bibliography//

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://pirateplayers.wikispaces.com/file/view/Commedia_dell_Arte.ppt <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">

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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">lesson 23/05/11- REFLECTION =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">What did we get done? Our group managed to achieve a lot in this lesson.
=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__movement:__ = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">We discussed the different movements whilst in mask. By this I mean as a group we discussed how Il Dottore would move and what his different facial expressions would be and how these would affect the audience and how they would affect the other characters in the scene. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">For Il Dottore our group decided that he would be a very dopy but at the same time very sly and in a way sleezy.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__ staging: __ = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The group decided that we would have many different tables positioned on the stage which allows Brighella to run around and place reserved signs on each of them. The group also discussed where the different characters would sit because we have to show the relationships between the different characters.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__The actual performance__ =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">They bump into each other. Arlecchino chatting to audience about descriptions..
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Reserved table thing…. Chairs game :)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Il Dottore sitting at a reserved table… asks the waiter to let them in as he sees Columbina
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Arlecchino foolishly decides to go in with Columbina.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Awkward date-Columbina and Arlecchino
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Il Dottore is sitting next to Arlecchino and Columbina and starts to but into their conversation
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Brighella drops the food under the table
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Columbina goes to the bathroom-Arlecchino and Il Dottore start talking… Il Dottore tries to get information about Columbina from Arlecchino
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Arlecchino needs to go to the bathroom and all of a sudden Brighella gets sick and faints and 'Il Dottore' who thinks he could impress Columbina by being a doctor tries to fix brighella but of course.. Doesn't succeed.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Arlecchino comes out of the bathroom and sees Columbina and Il Dottore in a suggesting position.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">They fight-Arlecchino wins over Il dottore..
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; vertical-align: middle;">Then arlecchino and Columbina get together and Il Dottore leaves.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Costume lesson 26/05/11** =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">My costume- Justifying costume <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Black Tights: I chose the black tights to represent trousers that Il Dottore would be wearing. I chose to use black and not grey because it is a more 'professional' and in a way a more 'rich' colour than grey. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Suit jacket: I chose the suit jacket because our performance is set in a modern day setting and if you saw a doctor walking around the streets of the city you would't be able to tell them apart from a business man except for a name tag or stethoscope. I also wanted to represent his wealth and by wearing this jacket his wealth is shown because the other male character (arlecchino) is wearing board shorts and a t-shirt which represents lower class. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Mask: I chose this mask over the other one because it represents the more creepy side to Il Dottore and that is what he is partially about in our scene - being creepy. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Dictionary: The dictionary is just to represent him thinking he is smart because everyone knows that you don't carry a dictionary around for the fun of it, I also thought that the dictionary could be a 'medical dictionary' that he made with all sorts of different diseases that he has 'come across' because when he tries to impress Columbina he uses it to determine what disease Il Dottore has. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Scarf: The scarf is just there to make him look more 'proper' in a sense because most wealthy businessman/doctors always have scarves on just to make a fashion statement/

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**__PART C Reflection and Evaluation__**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Explain how you prepared to play the character by answering the following questions: Use the elements of drama to help you write about performance – tension, focus, rhythm, space, movement, sound, time, symbol, mood, pace, pause and atmosphere, character/role, actor and audience relationship. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">What function did your character have in the plot of your play? My character was in charge of performing the operation on Brighella and also in charge of trying to impress Arlecchino's date Columbina. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px;">What was your character’s status in regards to the other characters and how did you show this? My character is of a much higher status than the other characters as he is a doctor. I showed this by always using big words in rehearsal and also adopting the correct Il Dottore stance which consists of his feet being in a 'waddle' position as well as having his arms tucked in and his head held up high. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px;">What are the main skills needed to perform in a mask? Performing in an Il Dottore mask is quite difficult because Il Dottore always moved his cheeks around so in order to do this your mouth had to be opened wide when speaking. Performing in mask also requires a lot of voice projection and you must know who your character is because if you don't know your character's personality the mask doesn't have the same effect. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">After the performance <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I think our group was relatively successful in our performance. I personally think I could've made my character a lot more snobbish and I don't think I played him that well. I needed to open my mouth more and use the different mouth gestures that we learnt about when we watched the first documentary. I also needed to waddle around a bit more and really get stuck into my character. I think the rest of the group was really good at playing their characters. I was very involved in the creation of the performance piece. Everyone was good and contributed different ideas and we all came up with different bits and pieces and placed them together. I really enjoyed working with this group as we all worked well and everyone was open-minded. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Write about the other groups’ performances. How successful were they? How could they improve? **Be truthful** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">**Group 1. Harlie, Jannette, Katie, Greg** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I think this group went quite well. The best character in this performance was definitely Jannette because she really knew who her character was and she had definitely done some research as to who Brighella was, how Brighella walked, how Brighella spoke and what his personality was. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Harlie was ok at playing Arlecchino. She knew that Arlecchino pulled stunts and knew how he stood but I don't think she really got into her character and really overplayed him as she should've. Greg played a good Capitano, he didn't mention that many battles that he'd been involved in but showed his cowardly side by being scared of the mouse. At one point he got frustrated at his hat and instead of being in character when it was annoying he started to be himself, so I think he should've improvised. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Katy was a good Isabella but she needed to get into her character a little bit more.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">How successful was your group performance? How could you improve? How involved were you in the creation of the performance piece? **Be truthful.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">**Group 3. Sean, Lauren, Rigel, Kayne**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This group did a real good job on their performance. I think all characters had done their research on their characters and they all knew their character's personality as well as knowing how their characters walked and talked. I think that Rigel could've spoken more about the wars he had won and what great courage he had as well as showing his medals and showing off. Sean did a real good job of Pantalone as he had the walk correct and the creepiness was to a good extent.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">**Group 4. Natasha, Daryl, Jennifer** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I think this group had a good simple scenario. I also think Daryl and Jennifer did a good job of performing as Arlecchino and Brighella as they knew who their characters were. You could see this as an audience member as Daryl was really dopey and Jennifer played many tricks and was sly. Natasha had an ok understanding of her character because like the other capitano's she had to brag about the different wars she had been present in and needed to show off a bit more and be more proud of herself as that character.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 22px;">**Group 5. Kayley, Tom, Ben (matt was away)!** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I think this group did a good job considering they had to make last minute adjustments as Matt was away. They all had an ok understanding of their characters. Tom as Il Capitano also needed to brag about the different wars and different medals he had received for bravery and for impressiveness. Kayley did a good job of playing Isabella as she had done her research and knew who Isabella was. Ben did quite a good job of Pantalone, he needed to be a tad more hunched over in his posture and needed to be a little more creepy than he was.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">15.5.11 You are up to date and this is great to see. Keep it up Sophie.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Performance and Part A || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student is highly competent in choosing and applying a range of skills and strategies for the realisation of work. The student’s processes and resolved work reflects a high level of proficiency and creativity. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student shows competence in applying skills and strategies needed for the realization of work, which shows creativity and proficiency in technique || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student applies skills and strategies needed to produce creative work showing reasonable proficiency in technique  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student demonstrates success with basic skills and strategies. The work reaches a point of realization and shows some proficiency in technique || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student demonstrates limited abilities to use the skills and strategies. The work is of poor quality || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">Student does not reach the standard described by any of the descriptors listed. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 115%;">6 || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Homework and Part A ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student shows a thorough understanding of the topic under consideration. The student confidently applied theoretical knowledge and subject specific terminology to identify clearly the complexities of the materials studied. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student shows a broad understanding of the topic under consideration, and applies theoretical knowledge and subject specific terminology to identify some complexities of the materials studied. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student shows a basic acquisition of the theoretical knowledge and understanding of the topic studied. The student uses some subject specific terminology to show critical awareness || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student has required limited theoretical knowledge and little understanding of the topic studied  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">Student does not reach the standard described by any of the descriptors listed. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 115%;">6 || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Part C ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student gives a considered response evaluating the processing undertaken in producing the presentation. This evaluation includes an accurate analysis of the quality of the work produced and details of improvements which could be made. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">A student reflects on the processes undertaken in completing presentation. The evaluation includes an appraisal of the quality of the work produced and an identification of areas of improvement. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">A student provides an evaluation of his or her presentation development. Some aspects of the evaluation may be superficial || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student displays minimal ability to reflect on the processes undertaken in developing their presentation  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">Student does not reach the standard described by any of the descriptors listed. || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 115%;">7 ||
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Criterion A ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">7-8  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">5-6  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">3-4  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">1-2  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">0  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Knowledge and Under-standing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Criterion C ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">7-8  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">5-6  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">3-4  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">1-2  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">0  ||   ||
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Criterion D ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">7-8  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">5-6  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">3-4  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">1-2  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">0  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Artistic Awareness and Personal Engagement ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student demonstrates a high level of interest and personal engagement in the work, and shows initiative, enthusiasm and commitment.  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student is fully engaged in the work, and shows a willingness to develop further his or her potential.  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student participates in the presentation and shows self discipline and motivation for the work.  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">The student participates to some extent in the presentation yet shows little interest and personal engagement in the work.  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 8px; line-height: 115%;">Student does not reach the standard described by any of the descriptors listed.  || <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 115%;">6  ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Time: 8.38 Group 2 – **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">The scenario you devised was quite strong and appropriate for Commedia dell, Arte. The internet dating worked well but needed more development – I didn’t understand how Columbina and Arlecchnio made the realization she had been duped. He didn’t match your expectations so how did he convince you to actually date him? These ideas needed more development. I picked up on the ‘loved doctors’ part of the profile but you needed to develop her infatuation with Il Dottore more too. The comedy as you tried to find a seat was funny. Considering the limited time we had, you guys did well. These are points you could have worked on if you had more time.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Good character – when you were behind the cloth we couldn’t see your face or mask – bring it up above the sheet. You needed something else in your hand as a prop to suggest doctor. You mentioned the PhD but needed to do more to show the doctor stock character. Maybe a surgical mask when you started to operate on Brighella which then would have given Columbina another avenue for finding you attractive. Modern doctors are wealthy and drive big flashy cars – you needed to find ways of showing how the traditional Dottore had been appropriated into the modern world. Your DW is detailed and up to date. Be sure to also include the site references for work you copy and paste – this includes images and pictures too.