A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises — a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre. Chapters include:
— Warm-Up Games — Mime and Movement Games — Word Games — Using Face Masks — The Legacy of Commedia dell'Arte, a chapter looking at the individual Masks or characters in the traditional Commedia dell'Arte.
