PULCINELLA VA ALLA GUERRA

“The work of this Italian company is part of the tradition of the Commedia dell’Arte. Actions and masks have been revitalized, but traditional theatrical techniques have not been forgotten: each mask is characterized by its own posture, movement and language”
Neuner – Austria

From the masks tradition of Commedia dell’Arte, PULCINELLA VA ALLA GUERRA is a work inspired by the Canovacci of the most famous XVI century Commedia dell’Arte Companies: Compagnia dei Gelosi (the Jalouses’ company), dei Golosi (Greedis’), dei Rintronati (In a daze’).
On the stage will rise Arlecchino, Pantalone and Pulcinella; The Lovers Leandro and Angelica; Pedrolino, Capitan Spaventa and Doña Apollonia.
Audience will see as a mask put on the face of an actor take life through his body that defines, in a non-verbal language, a well-defined human-type.
The performance is punctuated with a ludicrous rate and dynamic quick: 5 actors will go to play a set of 10 roles.
Objective is to make known the importance of the typical characters of the Commedia dell’Arte, with a performance that will create dynamic features of a genre that is based on the types-fixed. The show was born a historiographical reconstruction of Canovaccio used and the characterization of the masks themselves.
One of the company’s most acclaimed shows, produced at the beginning