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Announcing a new way to bring Commedia into your classroom!

Tut’Zanni Theatre Company, in collaboration with Faction of Fools, is excited to announce its newest original masked theatre production, and their first foray into the world of online theatre, [DIGITAL] Top Rung.

Big thank you to NET for this opportunity to collaborate and create new connections even if we can’t be in the same room!

We are very excited to announce that this year’s campaign was a huge success!

We recently taught our first all-online Zoom workshop - and it was awesome!

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 have always loved tiny little film sketches and comedy bits (basically what TikTok is, with a bit of YouTube mixed in there). So when the opportunity came to start exploring, I jumped on it.

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?!

We at Tut’Zanni have been in some discussions about the theatre we make, how we do it and how we do it with a eye towards Anti-Racism.

Could all language could be born from a fear of presence and being not being enough - needing to be “sure” you are getting across your point to something else?

white supremacy is a potent drug

We stand with Black Lives Matter.

My current goal, in relation to “what I’m up to”, is that I’m trying to not take on anything new.

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.

Announcing a new way to bring Commedia into your classroom!

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.

Tut’Zanni has gotten various questions about our name over the years.

13,000 words worth of photos from Tut'Zanni's latest trip to NYC.