Commedia Plays: Scenarios, Scripts, Lazzi

How to use this book
Introduction

The Plays
- The False Turk – in Twelve Minutes: One-act curtain raisers, seventeenth-century style
  - Cast and production requirements
  - Introduction
  - Scenario
  - Text
- Home from the Wars: Early Commedia dell’Arte sketch, in the style of Angelo Beolco
  - Cast and production requirements
  - Introduction
  - Scenario
  - Text
- Pantalone Goes A-Wooing: One-act play based on the Drottningholm painting (c. 1580)
  - Cast and production requirements
  - Introduction
  - Scenario
  - Text
- The Path of True Love: Two-Act play, in seventeenth-century ‘Golden Age’ style
  - Cast and production requirements
  - Introduction
  - Scenario
  - Text
- Fool’s Gold: One-act play, with early Mask types but with fin de siècle ‘Art House influence’s
  - Cast and production requirements
  - Introduction
  - Scenario
  - Text
- Harlequin Married: Mime play typical of Art Deco Commedia dell’Arte of the 1920s
  - Cast and production requirements
  - Introduction
  - Scenario
- The Haunting of Pantaloon – A Harlequinade: One-act play, based on the early Victorian ‘spoken’ style
  - Cast and production requirements
  - Introduction
  - Scenario
  - Text
- The Duchess Mislaid: Large-scale two-act play, designed as a community project involving all the well-known Masks
  - Cast and production requirements
  - Introduction
  - Scenario
  - Text
The Lazzi
1. ‘Asides and Freezes’
2. ‘The Attitudes’
  - The Nineteenth Century
  - The Seventeenth Century
3. ‘The Bee, the Fly, and the Flea’
4. ‘Changing Places
5. ‘Charging’
6. ‘Chasing’
  - Pantomime ‘Chases’
  - Adult ‘Chases’
7. ‘Counting’
8. ‘Clocking and Double Takes’
9. ‘Cross-Dressing’
10. ‘The Dance of Glee’
11. ‘Disguises and Role Swapping’
12. ‘Dismemberment!’
13. ‘Drunkenness and Drinking’
14. ‘Either End’
15. ‘Embracing’
16. ‘The Emperor’s Props’
17. ‘Exchanging Clothes’
  - The ‘Straight Exchange’
  - The ‘Comic Change’
  - The ‘Screen Change’
  - The ‘Hoop Change’
18. ‘Extra Limbs’
19. ‘Fainting’
20. ‘Forbidding’
21. ‘Fragmented Sentences’
22. ‘Gawping’
23. ‘Getting Nowhere’
24. ‘Gibberish’
25. ‘Going Backwards’
26. ‘Grimaldi’s Laugh’
27. ‘Half On/Half Off’
  - The Scaramouche Lazzo
28. ‘Here, here, them here’
29. ‘He’s behind you!’
30. ‘Hunger’
31. ‘Interjections’
32. ‘Knocking’
33. ‘Ladders’
34. ‘The Letter’
  - ‘Concealing the Letter’
35. ‘Listing’
36. ‘Looking’
37. ‘Lust’
38. ‘Making do with’
39. ‘Mime Drawing’
40. ‘Mimicking’
  - ‘Mimicking’ to identify
  - ‘Mimicking’ to ‘take the mickey’
41. ‘The Misdirected Embrace’
42. ‘Money’
43. ‘Moving a Body’
44. ‘Muttering and Mumbling’
45. ‘Names’
46. ‘Nothing will stop me’
47. ‘Nudge-nudge, wink-wink’
48. ‘Parting’
49. ‘The Passeggiata’
50. ‘Perquisites of the Role’
51. ‘Picking pockets, removing keys, etc.’
52. ‘Placing the Chair’
53. ‘The Policeman’s Lot’
54. ‘Proposing’
55. ‘Relay and relate’
56. ‘Rushing about’
57. ‘Searching’
58. ‘Startling each other’
59. ‘The Surprise Embrace’
60. ‘Tedium’
61. ‘Thinking’
62. ‘Threats’
63. ‘Token Conspiring’
64. ‘… Two Bits’
65. ‘The Umbrella Gag’
66. ‘Vanishing and Invisibility’
67. ‘The Zanni Duo’

Appendix 1: Stage Fights
Appendix 2: Onstage Locations [USR, CS, DSL etc]

The Duchess Mislaid

The Haunting of Pantaloon

Harlequin Married

Fool’s Gold

The Path of True Love

Pantalone Goes A-Wooing

Home from the Wars

The False Turk

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Commedia Plays: Scenarios, Scripts, Lazzi 34549

Eight original plays based on the different periods and styles of the Commedia dell'Arte for performance, workshop and training

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