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Posted on 2016-03-28 by Micke Klingvall

Tempo or rhythm

Commedia dell’Arte is always fast, it is always moving forward and there are no dead moments in it. Except from the fact that it is comedy and it requires a comedy tempo, it is a consequence of that it is … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-03-21 by Micke Klingvall

Grotesque as an acting style in Commedia dell’Arte

The acting style in Commedia dell’Arte is very crude and rough, especially in early Commedia dell’Arte. The masks can be tremendously grotesque; the plots plain vulgar; situations – burlesque. Over time Commedia dell’Arte got more refined, soon it had become … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-03-15 by Micke Klingvall

Distance as acting style in Commedia dell’Arte

Commedia dell’Arte is always played with a sense of distance. It comes from the stylizing of the mask, the size of play, the use of mask, loose phalluses and other deformities of the body, the actor’s energy and the simplicity … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-03-07 by Micke Klingvall

What we really know about Commedia dell’Arte (Part 2)

Except from the fact that almost all that is written about Commedia dell’Arte from the renaissance is either from what is played in the castles and palaces for nobles and the learned or it is written by priests who had … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-02-29 by Micke Klingvall

2015 – En Herrgårdssägen (The Tale of a Manor)

We opened the play in 17 April 2015, as a final production for Kulturama’s second year students in Physical Theatre that year. The performance played for three shows at Kulturama in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, and then it toured Trondheim and … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-02-29 by Micke Klingvall

En Herrgårdssägen (The Tale of a Manor)

by Selma Lagerlöf Herr Blomgren – Per Mollan Fru Blomgren – Yosefin Buohler Gunnar Hede – Axel Boberg Ingrid – Manuela Bjelke The Priest’s wife, The owneress at Munkhyttan– Malin Andresson Gustav Åhlin, Pigan, The Angel, Lady Grief, Karin Landeberg … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-02-26 by Micke Klingvall

Prolog or opening in Commedia dell’Arte

The introduction to a Commedia dell’Arte show in very important. It does not only have to present the different masks so that a modern audience will know them at an early stage in the show, it must also introduce the … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-02-23 by Micke Klingvall

Lazzo in Commedia dell’Arte

This might be the most known term in Commedia dell’Arte, though it is hardly known at all to those who are not involved in Commedia dell’Arte. It is not used anywhere else, but very often used in Commedia dell’Arte. What … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-02-22 by Micke Klingvall

Canovaccio in Commedia dell’Arte

If we go back to the heydays of Commedia dell’Arte the concept of canovaccio becomes more complicated. It was used both as a full scenario or just a plotline in a scenario. The word means “what’s on the canvas”. But … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2016-02-19 by Micke Klingvall

Personlighetstestet (The personality test)

Amanda Jalmberger – Sophie Ola Wallinder – Mats, Silver hat, The Fashion Designer, The Gameshow host Original music –Anders By and William Lövgren-Bilby Text – Ola Wallinder Directions – Micke Klingvall Personlighetstestet was made in collaboration with Teater7. It opened … Read the rest of this entry →

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