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Commedia Meets Hamlet: A Really Dumb Show

May 3, 2013

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library

Julie Cline

This event is a Renaissance show prepared by a visiting artist, Norma Bowles, artistic director of Fringe Benefits Theatre in Los Angeles, in collaboration with Prof. Holly Picket and her Spring Term class Hamlet's Ghosts.

Six tradition stock Italian Renaissance commedia dell'arte characters are introduced and will show ways they address contemporary social justice issues using their lazzi and commedia techniques.