Noncredit Course
Workshop in Commedia dell`arte with Antonio Fava
Event ID: S09557
Info: Apr 5 • Sat • 9:00am-3:30pm • 1 mtg • UHM Earle Ernst Lab Theatre • $60 (General), $40 (Students) • brown bag suggested for half hour meal break
With: Antonio Fava
Maestro Antonio Fava, in town to perform, introduces participants to the Italian theatrical style of Commedia dell`Arte. Fava teaches the uses and meanings of various masks, and introduces character types such as Old People, Lovers, Zanni, and Captains. Students explore the functions, gestures and behaviors of each character, and work together to present improvised Commedia scenarios. Enrollment is limited.
For details on the Commedia dell`Arte performance, Pulcinella`s War: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Pulcinella, who went to war for love, at the Earle Ernst Lab Theater on April 5, see www.hawaii.edu/theatre/stage/primetime.htm#Pulcinella.
Antonio Fava also presents "Noses, Mustaches, and Comic Bits (Nasi, Mustacchi, e Lazzi)," a free Commedia dell`Arte lecture-demonstration at the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre on Tuesday April 1 at 4:30pm. Elaborating on the subject of Commedia dell`Arte, Fava provides a demonstration that is split into four stages:
1. Historical introduction
2. Illustration of the characters by using the masks to interpret roles
3. Performance of several "lazzi" (individual comic routines) with Commedia dell`Arte characters and masks.
4. Question-and-answer time with the audience in order to provide a fuller picture.
Antonio Fava collaborates with academies of dramatic art and universities worldwide as a master teacher of Commedia dell`Arte. He is an accomplished actor, director, author, mask maker, librettist, musician, and playwright.Fava is also the founder of the Scuola Internazionale dell`Attore Comico (SIAC). SIAC accepts for enrollment 70 to 80 actors and actresses from all over the world and is where every language is welcome. Fava`s seminal book, The Comic Mask in Commedia dell`Arte, has just been published by Northwestern University Press (2007).
For more information on Maestro Fava, go to: www.commediabyfava.it/EN/index.html.
Co-sponsored by UHM Department of Theatre and Dance, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Funding provided by the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Graduate Research and Education Fund for Major Initiatives in the Liberal Arts.