The Syllabus for CMdA 101

Syllabus: CMdA 101 - Introduction to Commedia dell’Arte - The Confused Greenies
Fall 2007
Dottore Gratiano, PhD, MBA, MFA, LLB, NFL, QRS, TUV, BA, BS, BS, BS from Wikipedia State University
Mather Quad CircleLink Stop 450, x3801
[email protected]
Office Hours: When I feel like it
Suggested Reading: The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte, Antonio Fava
The Italian Comedy, Pierre Louis Ducharte
Lazzi: the Comic Routines of the Commedia dell’Arte, Mel Gordon
Playing Commedia: A Training Guide to Commedia Techniques, Barry Grantham
Commedia dell'Arte: An Actor's Handbook, John Rudlin
Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Troupes, John Rudlin and Olly Crick
Scenarios of the Commedia dell'Arte, Flaminio Scala (trans. by Henry F. Salerno)
Required Reading: The Two-Hundred Eighty-Seven Uses of Sauerkraut, Dottore Gratiano
Treatise on the 16th Century Muscovy Joint Stock Company, Dottore Gratiano
The Rise and Fall of the Atari: Volume 4: Pong, Dottore Gratiano
Synopsys: CMdA 101 is to serve as an introduction to commedia dell’arte with a focus on plot (improvised
scenarios), stock characters (Masks), comedic stage business (lazzi), and humorous stage violence (slapstick).
Student should leave class with the ability and desire to join The Confused Greenies (i Verdi Confusi).
Schedule:
--9/5
--9/12
--9/18
--9/29
--10/6
--10/2
--10/13
--11/9
--11/9
--11/20
--128
Introduction to CMdA 101: Introduction to Commedia dell’Arte
Open Enrollment for The Confused Greenies
Workshop #1: Funny Movements
Play Attendance: Fools, Huntington Playhouse, 8pm
Film Viewing: The Court Jester, Film Society, Strosacker, 7 & 9pm
Workshop #2: Masked Making & Improvisation
Play Attendance: What the Butler Saw, Eldred Mainstage, 8pm
Film Viewing: The Simpsons Movie, Film Society, Strosacker, 7, 9, 11pm
Performance of Dottore Gratiano’s Secret to Cartoon Physics, Strosacker, 9 & 11pm
Workshop #3: Creating a Scenario
Graduation Performance Review
Requirements:
-- Participation in class, workshops, and performances
-- Learning a silly walk
-- Workshopping a scenario
-- Making a mask
-- Making people laugh
-- Slapstick
-- Sexual innuendo / double entendre
-- Making more people laugh
-- 82.3%
-- 26.0%
-- 54.6%
-- 10.1%
-- 82.5%
-- 52.2%
-- 68.8%
--108.5%
Syllabus subject to change at any time by Dottore Gratiano; class may not be notified of change unless I feel
like it. Class is expected to stay up to date of all changes in the schedule.
(Edit by Isabella – please check filer.case.edu/org/commedia/ for class updates)