We can cover all aspects of the play and help you give your students ways into the play, tailoring the workshops to fit with what you and your students already know. For all workshops Olly Crick will incorporate his collection of commedia dell’arte masks and give the students a chance to work with them

Suggested ways in
The masks and movements of the traditional Commedia dell’arte characters
Focussed on the forms and movements of the traditional commedia characterts Goldoni utilised in his play.

The comic structure
Why the play is like it is and how you can write your own versions: how to use stock situations, comic devices and characters

How to act comedy and farce
Finding the balance between method acting and milking the crowd

Goldoni and his place in World and Venetian theatre History
How the play came to be written and its similarities  and dssimilarities to traditional commedia dell’arte

Models of the play:opening scene of Piccolo theatre of Milan and Georgio Strehler’s hugely influential version of the play
A Direction workshops where the mise en scene of the opening scene is recreated with your servants

Please contact Olly Crick
On
0781 290 9584
Or
oldspottheatre@aol.com