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 10: Winter 2023/24

Contents:

  1. Introducing Issue 10 of Zannizine

  2. Commedia dell’Arte: One Name, Many Meanings (Antonio Fava)

  3. Keeping the Commedia Banner Flying (Barry Grantham)

  4. Commedia around the World: The Power of Commedia dell’Arte in Malta (Sir Narcy Calamatta)

  5. Madame Maintenon & The Commedia dell’Arte (Barry Grantham)

  6. Book Review - Antonio Fava’s The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell’Arte (Cheryl Stapleton)

  7. Stage Craft – Part III (Barry Grantham)

  8. From the Archive - John A. Cross’ ‘20 Commedia dell’Arte Scenarios from the 1570s‘ (Jay Cross)

  9. Commedia dell’Arte: un nome, più significati (in Italian (Antonio Fava)

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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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