Black comedy alla Pulcinella / Antonio Fava.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Fava, Antonio, 1949- stage director, author, performer.

Di Donata, Cecilia, performer.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commedia dell'arte.

Genre:

Filmed performances.

Commedia dell'arte.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Melbourne, Victoria : Contemporary Arts Media, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Little Opera in words, Lazzi and Music in the style of the Neapolitan Commedia dell'arte. A real deal: an original performance with an internationally acclaimed Italian master, Antonio Fava. Premiered in Brisbane in 2010, the performance presents authentic Italian Comedia scenerarios, centered around the famous character, Pulcinella. Pulcinella is one of the typical characters of Commedia dell'Arte, one of the over two hundred variations of "zanni II", the 'foolish servant'. Pulcinella in this sense, is only a name just as 'Arlecchino', Franceschina, 'Truffaldino', 'Traccagnino', 'Tabacchino', Zagna, Zezza, and so on are simply other names for 'zanni II'. Thanks to this immensely human "boor", filthy, character, urbanized in Naples from the countryside, ugly, ignorant, lazy, jealous, greedy, hungry of maccarune and love, Commedia, the Mask and Improvisation will never loose its relevance. Fava's Pulcinella is also superstitious. Pulcinella, Donna Zezza, Tartaglia and all the characters involved in the stories are confronted with the crossing - a single, quick, scary crossing - of a black cat, that shakes their existence like an earthquake for the entire play. The consequences won't exclude any of humanity's greatest themes: Fear, Starvation, Love, Survival, Life ... Death - with a happy ending of course.

Participant:

Antonio Fava, Cecilia di Donata, performers.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed January 05, 2022).

Filmed at the 2010 Australian Commedia dell'arte Festival.

OCLC:

1292095230