How To Use Commedia dell'arte In A Sentence
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I am sorry to say that stereotypes are rooted in reality and, like the figures of commedia dell'arte, the roles of women in Italian society are fixed.
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Pag cleverly uses a commedia dell'arte troupe to enact a verismo tragedy.
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Michael Yeargen's set—inspired by pictures of a 17th-century Italian theater and commedia dell'arte—featured a raised wooden platform, candles for stage lighting, visible weights and pulleys for scenery changes, onstage devices for generating thunder and lightning, and an ancient, doddering stage manager who cued assistants and cranked levers.
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In turn, the state, blustering about the end of civilization like the swaggering capitano of the commedia dell'arte, plays the villainous authority who thwarts the inamorati.
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Our favourite restaurant there was Archimede, whose vigilant padrone and busy staff put on a bustling show like something out of the commedia dell'arte.
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Roberts' piece is described as a "virtuosic comedy thriller" in which she plays 13 characters while paying tribute to commedia dell'arte, classic movies and Kansas City history.
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Perhaps C17th gardens in northern Italy really did have lawned spaces where commedia dell'arte troupes played.
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The camp combines classical theater forms such as commedia dell'arte with the great outdoors, performing at spaces such as Skyland Amphitheatre in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Their wacky brand of physical comedy took its inspiration from a classic European theater style called commedia dell'arte.
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From the commedia dell'arte to Jackie Chan, the pratfall and other seemingly unpremeditated mishaps of physical humor have had a timeless appeal.
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And, finally, pratfalls are a universal language, and Moliere never betrayed his debt to the Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte.
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To set the scene, Dr. Parnassus is an ancient and mysterious traveling showman whose horse-drawn theatre presents something like a Medieval Mystery Play by way of the Commedia dell'arte.
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As in commedia dell'arte, they are always open for creative additions and dislocations, continually encouraging the actors to improvise, which means that the audience is activated in a remarkable way.
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The seriousness with which the elder Pisoni mentored his son helped to build a solid appreciation for craft and precision as well as the history and tradition of clowning from the early days of the commedia dell'arte to the present.
George Heymont: Once More With Feeling
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It quickly succumbed to all kinds of influences, theatrical (commedia dell'arte, for example) and musical (the exotic harmonies and instrumentation of Eastern music, say); with the rise of professional singers, composers were irresistibly drawn to an exploration of the extreme possibilities of the human voice.
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In carnival, the Commedia dell'Arte, the pantomime, and slapstick we find a modern expression of the trickster impulse.
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Finally, it will be hard to resist Company XIV Pinocchio: A Fantasy Of Pleasures, a wildly improbable mix of baroque ballet, commedia dell'arte, street dance and Fellini-esque surrealism that re-invents the familiar fairytale.
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We're studying the Italian masked characters from the sixteenth century commedia dell'arte.
LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
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At the last minute, the host decides to lighten things up by adding Zerbinetta and her Italian commedia dell'arte troupe to the program, and then, to save time, ordains that the opera and the harlequinade be combined.
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