A production by Fondazione Aida Artistic Director Roberto Terribile

A production by
Fondazione Aida
Artistic Director
Roberto Terribile
General manager
Meri Malaguti
Tour coordination
Alfredo Saladini
Director
Pino Costalunga
With
Andrea Bellacicco
Pino Costalunga
Jacopo Pagliari
Technician
Riccardo Carbone
Costumes
Antonia Munaretti
Scenes
Guglielmo Avesani
PROVINCIA AUTONOMA
DI TRENTO
Harlequin, the most famous character of Commedia dell’Arte,
is an invention that started with a man and his mask. He, with
his troupe, amused all the courts in Europe: his name was
Tristano Martinelli, a man born in Mantua, who lived between
the second half of the XVI century and the beginning of the
XVII. History, along with legends, tells us that this comedian, to
create the character of Harlequin used a mask of the devil from
the Sacra Rappresentazione, a form of popular theatre known
since the Middle Ages all over Europe in which the devils often
had a comic role. The legendary aura of Martinelli and the
charm that this man and actor always had, allows us to tell the
dream of a way of making theatre that soon became famous in
Europe and all over the world: the Commedia dell’Arte.
The show, following Tristano Martinelli\Harlequin’s life, who
became friends with the King and Queen of France and became
rich using a cheap mask, tells us, like a dream, the story and
the liveliness of an entire theatrical genre that gave us, beside
Harlequin, other characters that still live in our memories: from
the stingy Pantalone to the poor Pulcinella, from the beautiful
Isabella to the stubborn Doctor, from the pompous Captain
to the poor Zanni. A journey through masks and actors, devils
and beggars, trough the hell of poor people’s world and the life
in the magnificent courts of the Reinassance: a serious and
fun journey through the World of the Commedia dell’Arte.
Two different workshops for a different approach to the world of acting.
The work on the mask, the voice and the gesture, for a better knowledge
about the beginning of the modern theatre:
• Commedia dell’Arte, The birth of professional acting – adults;
• The world of masks – children.
PHOTOS ALICE MATTIOLO • GRAPHICS ANDREA MASOTTO, ANDREA ALTOMANI
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Roberto Terribile +39 348 7822001
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