Archive, History, Quick-change, Plays, Book Reviews Cheryl Stapleton Archive, History, Quick-change, Plays, Book Reviews Cheryl Stapleton

Issue 11, Spring 2025

Contents:

  1. SIMON CALLOW on COMMEDIA – by Simon Callow

  2. Low, Vulgar and Naughty: Mark Ravenhill Does Commedia – by Cheryl Stapleton

  3. The Rise of Quick-Change: From Commedia to Record Breaking Transformation– by Cheryl Stapleton

  4. From the Archive:Album-Ricordo del Duttoùr Balanzòn– by Barry Grantham & Cheryl Stapleton

  5. Book Review: M. J. McMahan’s Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italian, 1716-1723 – by Olly Crick

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Issue 9: Spring/Summer 2023

Contents:

1. Introducing Issue 9 of Zannizine

2. Cyril W. Beaumont: A Recollection (Barry Grantham)

3. Dance in Commedia – Part I (Bill Tuck)

4. Cyril W. Beaumont: An Appreciation (Barry Grantham)

5. Choreographing Callot (Klaus Abromeit)

6. Cyril W. Beaumont and Cecil Sharp (Bill Tuck)

7. The Changing Fortunes of Mr Punch (Bill Tuck)

8. Stage Craft – Part II (Barry)

9. Book Reviews:

i. John Rudlin’s “The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte, or Whatever Happened to Harlequin” (Olly Crick)

ii. The collected articles in “Commedia dell’Arte in Context”, editor Balme (Bill Tuck)

10. Ends and Odds: Highlights from World Commedia Day, 25 February 2023 (Cheryl Stapleton)

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Issue 4: Winter 2021-2022

Contents:

  1. Introducing Issue 4 of Zannizine

  2. British Seaside Pierrot Troupes by Uncle Tacko! AKA Dr Tony Lidington

  3. Commedia dell'Arte in Brazil: A Requiem for Roberto Innocente by Douglas Kodi

  4. Viva La Commedia! Staging Commedia in Singapore by André Pink

  5. Key to the Players in the Theatre Royal by Barry Grantham

  6. Francisco De Goya And His Masks by Rein van Schagen

  7. Books & Book Reviews: The Commedia dell’Arte by Giacomo Oreglia by Olly Crick

  8. Ends and Odds

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