Commedia dell'Arte-CHAOS Style!

My dearly beloved, smelly old, rotting commedia garb coat from the 80's

and my latest thrift find shoes!

Commedia dell'Arte, a style of theatre originating for the larger part in 16th century Italy

is one of my great passions.  I cut my theatre teeth in a commedia troupe and have always loved it

 best of any style of acting.

Consisting of stock characters and extremely physical and fast paced execution, theatre of dell'Arte

is a life long study of movement, improv and timing.

I am extremely fortunate, in my position as director of Royal Fairytale Theatre and

Pirates of CHAOS Productions to be able to offer my students classes in this art.

We spent the summer on LADY AND THE LEGUME and had a wonderful outdoor production!

Production night Lady and the Legume

This week, I brought my teen troupe, COMMEDIA DOLLS, into the community to offer

 a mask making workshop with a focus on the traits and characteristics 

common to the dell'Arte.

Here are some photos from the day!

Yes, indeed, I am truly Blessed to be able to keep the commedia alive

with such an excellent troupe of teens, passing it down so it won't be forgotten.

And for the Creative Soul I am truly thankful.

Me, eons ago..........  *sigh*

Feeling very Shakespeare-ish this day........

I adore my summertime teaching.
For 18-plus years now I've been offering my SHAKESPEARE IN THE ROUGH
outdoor theatre program in our local park.  This summer we perform MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

And nothing is quite as wondrous as children quoting Shakespeare.

I'm feeling very grateful this day.


"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."



- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, 2.1