1.  WHO AM I? 

I am Zoanna a servant girl who works for the judge. I am 24 years old and work with the other servant girl Clarissa.

2.  WHAT TIME IS IT?

the end of the sixteenth century. 

3.  WHERE AM I? 

I am in the judges house

4.  WHAT SURROUNDS ME?

All the work I have to do   

5.  WHAT ARE THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES?

I'm working with Clarissa around the judges house and we suspect something weird is going on
 

6.  WHAT IS MY RELATIONSHIP?

My best friend is Clarisssa she is the only one who gets me, unlike Pizzocca

7. WHAT DO I WANT? 

All I want is to be appreciated in this place me and Clarissa get no respect we deserve more

8.  WHAT IS IN MY WAY? 

Pizzocca, that's all I have to say 

9.  WHAT DO I DO TO GET WHAT I WANT? 

I have to do what Pizzocca says and act nice to her, which is a struggle 

My Characters costume

Creating a character from our body parts



In our third lesson we worked on the sorts of characters in the play 'the devil in drag' we used different body parts to create them and to experiment with them for example for the master devil he walked around the room with his chin slitly tilted towards the floor with a small grin on his face to represent the evil of the character then for the judge we had to walk about the room with our knees bent a little with the chest out and our heads held high to represent an old but very classy character.

Main Characters

Pizzocca Ganassa

Cardinal Ambone

Francipante

Barlocco

Jacoba

Zoanna

Clarissa

Geron De La Noci

Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) was a Italian play write who wrote the devil in drag  much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre.
In 1950, Fo asked to work with Franco Parenti on a variety show performed by radio actors, beginning a collaboration that would last until 1954. Fo delighted audiences with stories of his upbringing that Parenti was very impressed by, describing them as "absolutely original, with an extraordinary humour, wit and personification. When the show was over we'd go for walks round the lake and he'd tell me more stories. In this way we originated a project in which we would work together on a new type of revue, one which didn't copy reality, but which involved people and took a stand.(source from wikipedia)

Commedia workshop

What was your experience of these five characters?

I thought it was great experience going through all of the characters because it gave us a better understanding of the play we are working on and helped a lot with the different sorts off characters we are going to play. Each character was different in there own way.

Pantalone - he is a lecherous old fool, he is greedy and deluded. I imagined him with a dirty grin on his face, and he tall and lean and leads around the room with is chin.

Il Dottore- A bumbling quack who doesn't know a thing about medicine. I saw this character as fat and bold person who leads around the room belly thinking he knows everything when really he doesn't know anything.

Capitano- A complete coward and a fake. My view on this characters was that he was trying to be a posh/upper-class person but somehow is in charge and he likes to give orders, he leads around the room with his feet.

Pedrolino (developed into pierrot) - a lowly servant who dreams of love


Which character did you choose and why?

In are piece of improvisation I started off playing Arlecchino (Harlequin)- a cunning servant who retains the devils horn, mischievous deliberately mixes up his masters orders because in our piece of improvisation it was set as a Wedding, so I chose that character so I can stir things up in the piece I then changed my character to Pedrolino (developed into Pierrot) - A lowly servant who dreams of love the reason I changed to this character is because I could be madly in love with the person who is getting married and try and stop it from happening.


What were the strengths and weaknesses of our improvisation?

I think that strength of our improvisation was the plot because you could play around with it a lot which is perfect for improvisation because we new what was happening at the start of the play and at the end of it so we wouldn't get lost in the middle because we no what it should end up with