Commedia Dell'Arte

Pictured: (foreground) Paige Rogers and David Sinaiko (background left to right) Elena Scott, Lisa Tsubouchi, Cat Lum, Felicia Benefield, Chad Deverman, David Westley Skillman, Jason Wong, Karl Mossberger, Avery Monsen (sitting)

Studying Commedia :

• Antonio Fava and Traditional Commedia Masks
• Antonio Fava and Zanni Workshop
• The Tamer Tamed

How Commedia Stock Characters Have Evolved:

• Punch Judy: Santa Claus
• Punch and Devil
• Tom and Jerry
• Marx Brothers: I'll Say She Is
• Three's Company

Scholarly Research on Commedia dell'Arte:

• Early Paintings of Commedia Dell'Arte in France - by Charles Sterling
• Commedia dell'Arte and Opera - by Nino Pirrotta