{"id":902,"date":"2014-12-09T14:27:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/?p=902"},"modified":"2014-12-19T23:49:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T04:49:27","slug":"acting-ii-the-italian-comedy-meets-2014-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/2014\/12\/09\/acting-ii-the-italian-comedy-meets-2014-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting II: Exploring the Italian Comedy, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days students in Acting II have been experimenting with the ideas of <em>commedia dell&#8217;arte<\/em> and the connection it has to comedy produced today. For their current project students are being asked to create and perform a short sketch utilizing at least three elements of\u00a0 <em>commedia<\/em>. So far they have come up with some pretty intriguing ideas- corruption in sports, infantile behavior among politicians, the universal fear of flying, and the facade of family loyalty.\u00a0 In true <em>commedia<\/em> fashion they are creating outlines for their scenarios and will soon embark on the task of using improvisation to bring the pieces to their feet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6705-e1418152725949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-913\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6705-e1418152725949.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew, Chris, and Nick work out some details for their scenario dealing with corruption in major league sports. \" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6705-e1418152725949.jpg 480w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6705-e1418152725949-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6705-e1418152725949-187x250.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew, Chris, and Nick work out some details for their scenario dealing with corruption in major league sports.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-914\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6709-e1418152882344.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-914\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6709-e1418152882344.jpg\" alt=\"Preliminary notes for the corruption in sports scenario. \" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6709-e1418152882344.jpg 480w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6709-e1418152882344-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_6709-e1418152882344-187x250.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preliminary notes for the corruption in sports scenario.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days students in Acting II have been experimenting with the ideas of commedia dell&#8217;arte and the connection it has to comedy produced today. For their current project students are being asked to create and perform a short sketch utilizing at least three elements of\u00a0 commedia. So far they have come up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/2014\/12\/09\/acting-ii-the-italian-comedy-meets-2014-part-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acting II: Exploring the Italian Comedy, Part II<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,129,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-news","category-theater-highlights","category-williston-theatre"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}