In our drama class, we have been looking and the emotions and the language (Gromalot) of Commedia dell'Arte. We watched two National Theater videos that I have put the link to below:
We completed a series of tasks in class to help us to further understand the form of emotion and language in Commedia which included small skits and performance tasks.
What gromalot is: My understanding of gromalot is that it is the language of Commedia dell'Arte. It is used to have communication between characters without really having to say anything. It's all babble really, but because of body movement, facial expressions and tone of voice, the audience and other characters can understand what is trying to be communicated.
The seven primary emotions: Happiness, Grief, Fear, Laughter, Anger, Surprise and Love.
For the emotion point, we had to chose one of the seven primary emotions. After we had chosen, we were to act out these emotions either starting from 1, which was when the emotion was dialed down, or 10, which is when the emotion was at its highest. If we had started from 1, we needed to work our way up to 10 getting more and more exaggerated. If we chose to start from 10, we had to slowly dial down the emotion to a 1. I chose to do Fear. I started from a 1 and escalated to a 10.
To practice our Commedia language (gromalot) we were put into pairs. In our pairs, we were to devise a short skit in which we spoke in gromalot. I was put into a pair with Nafisa. Our scene showed us walking and talking to each other and then we found a dead body on the floor and started to cry. It was actually quite difficult to speak in gromalot because it is all improvisation.
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