12/13: Annotated Citation Page

Posted by on Dec 13, 2011 in IB Daily, Theatre in the World | No Comments

During today’s puppetry presentations, the subject turned to annotated source lists. First a reminder: your annotated bibliographies are due by Friday in class. For those of you who still have questions about what that document should look like, check out this example (you’ll need to be logged into your webmail to view it). Be warned ...

Using the Scenario in your Commedia workshop

Posted by on Apr 23, 2010 in IB Daily | No Comments

Zach started us off with his research presentation on Physical Mise-en-scéne in Commedia. He covered the topic well as it relates to Commedia in general, but a reminder to everyone in the coming days: you must also relate your information to the assigned scenario. Staying with our metaphor—and, indeed, the reality of our situation—we need ...

Commedia and the RI

Posted by on Apr 19, 2010 in IB Daily | No Comments

Today was the Commedia introduction, and I’m still sore. We went over Zanni movement—cribbing shamelessly from Antonio Fava—and ended with some basic lazzi. I introduced the basic Zanni walks. I got over-excited and introduced the batocio, but luckily no one was injured. Tomorrow we’ll bring in the masks and see how that adds to the ...

The RI, or how to pick a chair

Posted by on Apr 1, 2010 in IB Daily | No Comments

Today was another day of split personality for me. While the year one students worked on their staging for the upcoming scenes from Betrayal, the Year Twos were in the green room with me talking about RI’s, PPP’s, IPP’s and a host of other letters. Right now, the primary concern for most of the students ...