Commedia De'll Arte

In today's lesson we began by running all of the scenes we have so far to see where we wanted to add new scenes or expand scenes we already have.
We ran through our opening scene with Doctor and Pantalone bickering about the restaurant and when the critic would be arriving. We got this idea from 'The Muppets' with 'Waldorf and Statler' constantly belittling each other and everyone else. We decided to expand this scene with more bickering, we discussed characterising and decided that we wanted them to be constantly arguing even when they're not in the scene to give off the comic effect of their characters.
After this we decided to go back over the 'Prawn Soup' scene. We decided not to change or add anything to this scene as it was the best one we had so far, it continued to show Doctor and Pantalone's relationship and began to show Il Capitano's traits as well.
Afterwards we ran the 'syrup' scene, where Zanni attempts to style his hair. We decided to make some changes to this scene, instead of having Il Capitano come on and threaten Doctor, we came up with the idea of having Brighella come on instead (as Il Capitano already has a lot of scenes). Instead of threatening Doctor, Brighella decided to come on and shouted at them instead, showing more of her characters side making her distinctly different from Il Capitano.


- After this we discussed what was needed for the performance and what we needed to do next.

get all the props

get costumes

devise a scene between Pantalone, Brighella and Zanni