Arlecchino Character Analysis

The character that I chose for my performance was the acrobatic, Arlecchino. This character is fast, funny and just an all around fun character to play. I chose this character because at the beginning of this process I was thinking of how I wanted to move the story and seeing as Arlecchino moves the story in a lot of circumstances I knew I wanted to play this trope. I enjoyed doing all the tricks and the lazzi’s of this character. This energetic character just really called to me and expanded my comfort zone in the lines of doing weird crap on a stage. The entire experience was difficult. From designing the mask to creating a scene, everything had to be thought about and logical. For my group it was hard on the first day to even talk to each other let alone create a comedic performance. Also, the play had to make sense so we had to go through a lot of ideas and scenes to make sure it all flowed. Even with performance we gave, there could always be a way to take it too the next step. The walk for my character was another difficult part of this because it requires a lot of leg work so thank god I did volleyball for all those years. I really enjoyed the entire thing though. I repainted my mask in the beginning because I didn’t like how it looked,

We never broke character and some of us where even willing to take a fall just for a laugh. Just like every performance however, there is always something that could be improved. For me this would be that we could be a little louder and even more out going. It would have been nice to mess with each other some more and there was a lot of things that could have gotten even more of a reaction out of the audience. The audience, seemed to like it a lot. I heard a few laughs and that made me feel good because one was evoked from me hiding in a “bush”. The audience seemed to like our show and it would have been cool to perform for a bigger