In our recently announced and currently available Digital Intro Class to Commedia dell’Arte, we talk about Archetypes VS Stereotypes and thought it was a great thing to share with more folks.

Let’s hit some broad strokes here. A lot of people have never heard of commedia dell’arte. Those who have often get a very specific interpretation by an individual or company. That’s because it’s old, it died for a long time, and now people have fallen in love with it again in different ways.

In the show, actor Rachel Brodeur and I jump back and forth between over 20 characters, including the pilot, air hostesses, passengers, hijacker, reporters, Portuguese shepherd children, and even the Virgin Mary herself…

One thing we are always working on in the company is discovering new archetypes from our world all around us. Now working on [DIGITAL] Top Rung, I had the opportunity to make some new masks for some of the new archetypes and then characters of the show.

I am OBSESSED with a great wig. I think they are to be strongly consider when creating a masked Commedia character. Yes, you can do a hat, for on the head… but why not consider a wig?!

I cannot shake this feeling like maybe Commedia is really bad at intersectionality.

Commedia characters do not have objectives the way traditional acting classes talk about them, they have base needs, or drives.

We got a question on the blog that sparked a really interesting conversation…

There is more to language than what is spoken, and what is spoken may not always be what you think it will be.

We got a question on our blog post (LINK) that sparked a really interesting conversation among the Tut’Z but first we will share our response…