[NEohioPAL] Japanese Comedy Workshop - Free

[Jess Rudolph]

Ohayou Gozaimasu!

<http://filer.case.edu/org/commedia/>The Confused 
Greenies may specialize in the masked 
improvisational comedy of Commedia dell'Arte but 
we also perform the classic Japanese comedic art 
of Kyogen - and today, Sunday the 28 at 4:00pm, 
you can learn more about these 
"<http://studentaffairs.case.edu/programs/satco/events/21505.calx>Mad 
Works" as part of the Saturday College (SatCo) at 
<http://www.case.edu/>Case Western Reserve 
University - yes, a SatCo on a Sunday!

Kyogen is the comedic interludes and companions 
to the more serious and tragic Noh plays of 
centuries old Japanese tradition. Kyogen often 
uses short farces with stock characters, 
slapstick, and running gags to create very human 
stories (regardless if the players are silly 
servants, gods, demons, or mushrooms) and 
universal humor accessible to anyone from any culture.

Our workshop will include performance 
demonstration of this art, some of its long 
history and style, movement exercises for several 
prominent stock characters, and examinations of a 
few short farces. And since we in The Confused 
Greenies, are improv artists, we invite you to 
help use stage these hilarious scenes!

4:00pm, Sunday, February 28: 
<http://studentaffairs.case.edu/programs/satco/events/21505.calx>Mad 
Words: Japanese Comedic Theatre
<http://wiki.case.edu/Nord_Hall>Nord Hall 410, 
<http://www.case.edu/>Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Free!

And in just three weeks we'll be performing our 
fourth Mad Words: the Art of Kyogen for the Spring Anime Marathon at CWRU!

Email: lazzi at case.edu for more details, questions, or directions!

foolishly yours,
--Jess


Jess Rudolph (Niccolò Bartolazzi), Capocomico of 
the Patchwork Players Productions:
The Confused Greenies - the Greatest, Loudest, 
and Most Pompous Commedia dell'Arte troupe at Case Western Reserve University
i Verdi Confusi - the Greatest of the Newest 
Commedia dell'Arte troupe in Northern Oaken of the Midrealm

http://filer.case.edu/org/commedia/

-a hungry, hapless, and hopeful harlequin
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