With stunning renaissance costumes, exotic stage setting, and original masks VIVA COMMEDIA! is the perfect show to celebrate Italian culture with the most famous Carnevale characters.

The show follows a simple plot, a pretext to present the students with 9 Commedia dell’Arte characters in their traditional costumes and with their characteristic physicality and funny moves.

The show is in English with a few Italian expression. The stock characters speak in English emphasizing their original Italian regional accents.

At a fast pace, the following characters take the stage: Dottor Balanzone expert in everything and nothing, Fabrizio the unlucky lover, Colombina the only one with a functioning brain in the company, Brighella the cunning and unscrupulous inn keeper, Pulcinella the symbol of the city of Naples, Capitano braggart and coward, Arlecchino who needs no introduction, and his master Pantalone the greedy Venetian merchant and his daughter, the elegant Isabella.

Not only is the show informative but most of all, fun for students and teachers alike.

Performance Space
VIVA COMMEDIA! does not require technical supports. We do, however, require that the performance space be clean and free of clutter and that the backstage area be visually protected from the outside. We require access to the space 75 minutes before the start of the show for set up of costumes and backdrop.

BOOKINGS
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