Life and Laughter: Commedia dell'Arte in Five Funny Scenes May 16, 2011
Washington, District of Columbia
Box office opens at 7 pm...No advance reservations.
FREE Tickets distributed on a first come, first served basis.
Faction of Fools, DC's Commedia dell'Arte Theatre Company, tickles the funny bone and warms the soul with scenes of spectacular human foolishness. A lover's spat torments an unsuspecting letter-carrier; two brash heroes find themselves at an impasse; a classic novel gets a dose of physical comedy; and American absurdism reaches acrobatic new heights!
Commedia dell'Arte, a masked style of improvised comic theatre, began in Renaissance Italy and had a lasting influence on Shakespeare, Carlo Gozzi (author of Constellation Theatre's The Green Bird), and even modern TV sit-coms. Faction of Fools reinvigorates this classical form with scenes created and performed by Steven Bradford, Daniel Flint, Paul Edward Hope*, Michelle Tang Jackson, Emma Crane Jaster, Toby Mulford, Justin Purvis, Paul Reisman*, Rachel Spicknall, Jesse Terrill*, and Matthew R. Wilson*.
*denotes members of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers
Official Website: http://www.constellationtheatre.org/freeevents.html
Added by cherylgnerlich on May 12, 2011