Hello, it's possible to extend the diagram out to the side, if you add two smaller circles to the outside of the diagram at the same height as the Witch and link with lines to the 1st Actor, 1st Actress, Pantalone & the Doctor. The young lovers (2nd Actor & 2nd Actress) are usually the children of the 1st Actor, 1st Actress, Pantalone or the Doctor. Because of their youth they sit outside the social hierarchy. Apologies for that omission from the diagram. Thank-you for your comment.
I've been laughing and enjoying this video tremendously. I'm an actor and I would LOVE to do a workshop on this, especially with a woman as knowledgable and amazing as Didi Hopkins. What a beautiful, awesome thing! I love how physical Commedia is. I would LOVE to watch this sort of theatre.
well said. sometimes a short video like this can be much more informative and educational than a long documentary. there are way too many documentaries out there that either have nothing to teach you or contain misleading and manipulative information similar to what you see on ads
These video's have helped me so much! I am studying Commedia right now in school and have been struggling with the characters, but now feel much more comfortable with them! They all make much more sense now. When I was first explained it all, the characters were so much to take in. Thanks again! (I'm playing one of the young lovers!)
I am watching this video because I became really interested in Commedia dell'Arte after having watched the trailer of Genshin Impact that introduces its 12 Harbingers, which are based on these characters. I never knew about these before, and I am glad to know more! Thank you so much for putting this video together. Know that it is still appreciated 11 years later today.
HOW CAN THEY DO THIS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE?? I know training like this gives rise to great interpretations and characters but still watching it at work is so strange.. xD
Welcome to the arts, dear! We spend a lot of time making fools of ourselves so we can hopefully make something worth experiencing later. (plus it desensitizes us to making fools of ourselves unintentionally)
When the focus is on the artuculation of a character or role, the attention is so involved with the activity, the thought of silliness or of being concerned about how one appears to others has no room to exist...
Years ago I unexpectedly came upon a Commedia dell'Arte production in a small square in Venice. Once I was given the premise of the action by an English-speaking Venetian seated nearby, I laughed along with everyone else at the hilarious antics of the actors. How lucky can one be, eh!
Yes I wonder if it wasn't part of the esoteric understanding of the theatre at the time... The characters certainly work well with the planetary and other archetypal correspondences of the Sephirot
Wow. Such an informative and helpful video with getting to grips with the characters of Commedia dell'arte. A lot of info on the internet is ill-explained and contradictive to other sources, but this is great and Didi Hopkins is an undoubtable reliable source of knowledge on Commedia.
@@Sarah-ot6ls oh so you asked in real life? You went to this persons house and asked him to comment this exact thing on this exact TH-cam video? Seems unlikely...
This is so interesting for me as a student of western Kabbalah - it seem to me that the diagram of the tree of life is used arbitrarily as a scheme to define the different energies/characters - interestingly enough - a scheme of 11 spheres is serving the characters - the diagram in its origin is 10 spheres where the 11th one is hidden. - in tantric numerology there are 11 archetypes which probably match betters - these 11 ‘faces’
Nothing I ever learned at school ever stuck with me as much as commedia did. Playing Brighella was the most I ever enjoyed acting. I have to find myself an improv group asap.
"An exaggerated mirror of society" that's when it all made sense. This play seems very disturbing nonetheless, but perhaps that's because it reflects on us humans, and shows the foolishness of our actions.
The two lovers (2nd actor + actress) were mentioned in the video, but don't feature in the final diagram. Do the lines show who can interact with who? I find these aspects of the diagram confusing, but apart from that I find this video very interesting.
Professor Twilley down at the Arlen Learning Annex was particularly impressed with my character Tartuffe the Spry Wonder Dog. My father was not amused by my performance, however. All he had to say was, "That boy ain't right."
Are the characters' positions on the diagram intended to correspond to the elements of the original 'Tree of Life' diagram? Or did the designer just like the shape and repurpose it?
Hi! First, I must congratulate the team of young actors and their teachers!! Second, I have a question... is there really a difference between Magnifico and Pantalone? Sometimes I find that they are usually referred as the same character.
Enrique Nue Dear Sir, in Italian the word magnifico is equivalent to being magnificent in what you do. Normally it was the respectful way of calling a Notary Public who knew all the secrets of each family's possessions and contracts, therefore highly feared and respected. This attitude gave the magnifico a sense of grandeure and bombast. Now the Pantalone mask could be such a larger than life loud and magnificent character or indeed a decrepit old man who is still interested in sex but is myopic, forgetful and shuffles along with a squeeky voice and no dignity. In both cases he is a stingy and greedy merchant.
Manifico - seems to be about power but his power is only as strong as the demos who allow him to have it and Pantalone is about money and of course this creates his need
National Theatre why did you use the Kabbala diagram for this? I d love to know why and if you are associating that with the Commedia or if not why it is not acknowledged that that is the Kabbala diagram
that diagram is the Tree of Life in Kabbalah, which is a map of occult energies and archetypes used in ceremonial magick. it's an interesting rabbit hole to research
Thank you for this wonderful video. I'm interested in graduate MFA programs that are in the UK. Would you have any suggestions for students in the United States that are very interested in attending graduate programs in the UK?
been out of school for many years and just watching this for fun cuz I find it interesting. but I've alway been a nerd for this kind of thing, even in school.
He is giving an reference once in a while about some characters in a word, I don't know if it is a movie or a play. And with my poor English I couldn't get the title. Could some one help me?
Hello, it's possible to extend the diagram out to the side, if you add two smaller circles to the outside of the diagram at the same height as the Witch and link with lines to the 1st Actor, 1st Actress, Pantalone & the Doctor. The young lovers (2nd Actor & 2nd Actress) are usually the children of the 1st Actor, 1st Actress, Pantalone or the Doctor. Because of their youth they sit outside the social hierarchy. Apologies for that omission from the diagram. Thank-you for your comment.
ok
BE ASHAMED THIS SUCKS
this is the MOST ridiculous thing I've ever seen....
i have to watch this for quarantine drama and im PISSING MYSELF LMFAOOO
SAMEEE BAHAHAHHA
Same lmaooo
SAME LOLLLLL
I’m watching this for school quarantine work 😂😂
Same bruh
Issy Levy aye same bro
Ye haha
Same
drama be like
God bless them for keeping these traditions alive
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WHO CAME HERE FOR HOMEWORKKKKKKKKKKKKKK HAHAHA! i love this video
hannah s. MEEEEEE!!!
Me too hahahaha
indeed
Me as well
me too!
This is just what every school is doing in drama bruh
Aa Squad ikr
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Ya
ikr lol
Yep think theater or pedagogik. We learn about this sort of Views
I've been laughing and enjoying this video tremendously. I'm an actor and I would LOVE to do a workshop on this, especially with a woman as knowledgable and amazing as Didi Hopkins. What a beautiful, awesome thing! I love how physical Commedia is. I would LOVE to watch this sort of theatre.
No one:
My brain cells during a test 8:00
omg lmao same
This comment is underrated
WHAT IS SHE DOING PLEASE-
A very interesting and informative video - you can learn a lot in 9 minutes when information is put together well and clearly delivered.
well said. sometimes a short video like this can be much more informative and educational than a long documentary. there are way too many documentaries out there that either have nothing to teach you or contain misleading and manipulative information similar to what you see on ads
sameeeeeeeeeeeeeee
but you can also detect some misunderstanding about commedia dell´arte !! eh eh .
That´s the drama of academic teaching and learning.
These video's have helped me so much! I am studying Commedia right now in school and have been struggling with the characters, but now feel much more comfortable with them! They all make much more sense now. When I was first explained it all, the characters were so much to take in. Thanks again! (I'm playing one of the young lovers!)
5:04 me trying to impress someone.
Same 😂😂
loooool dead
I guess this is what every English child is doing in quarantine drama
Indian child as well
Mexican child as well lmao
German child as well
Belgian as well
im here for work as well lmao
I am watching this video because I became really interested in Commedia dell'Arte after having watched the trailer of Genshin Impact that introduces its 12 Harbingers, which are based on these characters. I never knew about these before, and I am glad to know more! Thank you so much for putting this video together. Know that it is still appreciated 11 years later today.
same
mmm
Ok
yeeah Genshin fans rise xD
I HAVE TO WATCH THIS FOR DRAMA CLASS AND WHEN I SAW THE NAMES I ALMOST DIED-
5:04 when you're bathroom singing and it goes to far
HOW CAN THEY DO THIS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE??
I know training like this gives rise to great interpretations and characters but still watching it at work is so strange.. xD
Welcome to the arts, dear! We spend a lot of time making fools of ourselves so we can hopefully make something worth experiencing later. (plus it desensitizes us to making fools of ourselves unintentionally)
@@thegnome73 That is an excellent answer to that question. Stealing.
@@dangerics7308 Without plagiarism I hope?
It’s like, this will help me land a part in East Enders in a year or two? Yes. Somehow, yes it will. Lol
When the focus is on the artuculation of a character or role, the attention is so involved with the activity, the thought of silliness or of being concerned about how one appears to others has no room to exist...
Thank you for all your comments and make sure you look at the other videos in this collection on Commedia dell'Arte.
1:17 my last brain cells in an exam
Horny Giorny 😂😂🤣🤣👍
More like 8:00
Years ago I unexpectedly came upon a Commedia dell'Arte production in a small square in Venice. Once I was given the premise of the action by an English-speaking Venetian seated nearby, I laughed along with everyone else at the hilarious antics of the actors. How lucky can one be, eh!
My school is starting a Commedia dell'Arte class, so this was extremely useful for really understanding what it's all about.
You are lucky your school is exposing you to this old form of theater!
Thank you very much for your comment and best of luck in your performance.
weird af, I have to watch this for school
decaine97 same lmao
haha same
lol same, we have a drama project
decaine97 omg same!!
Bruh everyone here because of stupid school😂 this is honestly so lame🙄😂
I know almost nothing about Commedia dell'Arte and I am already fascinated by this. It looks so realistic, this is amazing
some people are here for school some people are here for genshin impact but all of us are gonna be learning something new ^_^
I honestly love this so much. The comment section has got to take themselves less seriously.
I gotta ask who chose the " Tree of Life" to descibe a diagram of the archtypes in this form of theater....
right? very interesting, though.
Weird indeed.
Yes I wonder if it wasn't part of the esoteric understanding of the theatre at the time... The characters certainly work well with the planetary and other archetypal correspondences of the Sephirot
These NT films are excellent. My IB Theatre students find them clear and inspiring. thank you.
Watching this just to understand Genshin's Fatui lore
SAMEEEE
Wow. Such an informative and helpful video with getting to grips with the characters of Commedia dell'arte. A lot of info on the internet is ill-explained and contradictive to other sources, but this is great and Didi Hopkins is an undoubtable reliable source of knowledge on Commedia.
Hi David
I once did a project for theatre history about Commedia and the more I learn about it the more I want to take a workshop on it!!🤩
Thanks National Theatre, great great help for studying Commedia! Didi Hopkins is a great educator, I hope to work one day with this lady.
Teacher: the lessons not that boring
The lesson:
it is not boring then
@@DeafLoudness It is if you were put in the class you didn't even think about getting. I would have taken anything else other than theater arts.
i have to do a summary for this video AHHHHHHH
Lmao
lmao so true
Italy has such a beautiful culture, I'm so proud to be italian
Didn’t ask
@@nsn6652 oops i did :)
@@Sarah-ot6ls huh, that’s weird because I don’t see any evidence that proves you did...
@@nsn6652 sorry that I didn't ask in the comment section where everyone could see
@@Sarah-ot6ls oh so you asked in real life? You went to this persons house and asked him to comment this exact thing on this exact TH-cam video? Seems unlikely...
Here for school mah frends. My group can't do this without laughing or breaking character. XDD
This is so interesting for me as a student of western Kabbalah - it seem to me that the diagram of the tree of life is used arbitrarily as a scheme to define the different energies/characters - interestingly enough - a scheme of 11 spheres is serving the characters - the diagram in its origin is 10 spheres where the 11th one is hidden.
- in tantric numerology there are 11 archetypes which probably match betters - these 11 ‘faces’
I am writing an essay for schoolwork and this really helped me! Thank you!
Nothing I ever learned at school ever stuck with me as much as commedia did. Playing Brighella was the most I ever enjoyed acting. I have to find myself an improv group asap.
Very good video, but where are Pulcinella and Pedrolino?
That's what I was wondering, I came to this video specifically for Pulcinella because I was given him as a school project but he isn't here.
Am I the only one who's interested in the Eleven Fatui Harbringers instead? 😅
This looks like so much fun man if everyone just fully sends it. But its harder than it looks these guys must be decently talented
If they ask your fav part say the end. BRUV THIS GAVE ME AUTISM
This video is the pinnacle of multicultural autism.
even as a theatre kid I think this is so weird, but hey... you gotta do what you gotta do as an actor
3:16 Boris Johnson be like:
"An exaggerated mirror of society" that's when it all made sense. This play seems very disturbing nonetheless, but perhaps that's because it reflects on us humans, and shows the foolishness of our actions.
You really understand this
The two lovers (2nd actor + actress) were mentioned in the video, but don't feature in the final diagram. Do the lines show who can interact with who? I find these aspects of the diagram confusing, but apart from that I find this video very interesting.
I came here because of Genshin Impact
5:15 When its 10mins before lunch
BAHAH
Those masks are fantastic! Whish I could have someone like them
Excellent explanations of the Commedia characters!
Looked at this in drama class in school lol😅 then we had to do something similar lol😂😂
Although this is all for homework, this video is oddly comforting.
Amazing, would love to be involved in a workshop like this
What a wonderful teacher she is
Professor Twilley down at the Arlen Learning Annex was particularly impressed with my character Tartuffe the Spry Wonder Dog. My father was not amused by my performance, however. All he had to say was, "That boy ain't right."
Are the characters' positions on the diagram intended to correspond to the elements of the original 'Tree of Life' diagram? Or did the designer just like the shape and repurpose it?
this is amazing.
Hi! First, I must congratulate the team of young actors and their teachers!! Second, I have a question... is there really a difference between Magnifico and Pantalone? Sometimes I find that they are usually referred as the same character.
Enrique Nue Dear Sir, in Italian the word magnifico is equivalent to being magnificent in what you do. Normally it was the respectful way of calling a Notary Public who knew all the secrets of each family's possessions and contracts, therefore highly feared and respected. This attitude gave the magnifico a sense of grandeure and bombast. Now the Pantalone mask could be such a larger than life loud and magnificent character or indeed a decrepit old man who is still interested in sex but is myopic, forgetful and shuffles along with a squeeky voice and no dignity. In both cases he is a stingy and greedy merchant.
***** Thanks a lot!! ^^ Molte grazie!!
Manifico - seems to be about power but his power is only as strong as the demos who allow him to have it and Pantalone is about money and of course this creates his need
O Galileo Galileo Galileo Figaro! Magnifico-o-o-o
Can I just say how much I love this video. I’ve come back to it countless times. Thank you.
This is an excellent explanation of Commedia del Arte
Schoolwork makes me wanna die at this point lol
National Theatre why did you use the Kabbala diagram for this? I d love to know why and if you are associating that with the Commedia or if not why it is not acknowledged that that is the Kabbala diagram
Nobody:
Mr Bean trying to tell the audience he’s hungry 5:14
No one:
Not a soul:
Not a sigh:
Guy who came on national theatre to get famous: 5:07
I love the amount of fellow students watching this video. I’m here for the same reason! 😂
Brilliant exposé, well done !
Suddenly, I understand the Yip Yips from Sesame Street.
5:04 When ur imposter in among us
Omg lmao 🤣🤣
Kabbalah of Commedia dell'Arte, that is an interesting view?
Snezhnaya culture be like:
lol Genshin
LMAO NO PLS
shut up
great synthesis and video!!!! everything cristal clear. thank you
5:07 my last brain cell leaving me
HAHAGHAGHAGAHHGAHAHA
that diagram is the Tree of Life in Kabbalah, which is a map of occult energies and archetypes used in ceremonial magick. it's an interesting rabbit hole to research
Am I the only one who's here because they have a hyperfixation on Snezhnaya from genshin? And it's evolving
YES!
Y'all here bc of hw, im here becuz of genshin ✋
Thank you for this wonderful video. I'm interested in graduate MFA programs that are in the UK. Would you have any suggestions for students in the United States that are very interested in attending graduate programs in the UK?
I'm just watching this because the teacher told us to and I'm just in amazement. I don't even know why LOL I think its the descriptions and acting
How do we know that the physical acting techniques have not been corrupted by repeated transmission since the Renaissance era?
Dear Didi Hopkins?
Are the first actor and first actresses are also called The Lovers?
I love this so much! this is why I chose drama 🥰🥰
5:07 Yvie Oddly dancing in the werkroom to Jaida’s song
Brilliant breakdown!!
Everyone's talking about how they have to watch this for school but I'm here cause this is interesting to me
How sad
@@Nique1214 luv 🙏
Wow, awesome vid, I like the kabbalistic diagram analogue
great vid guyssss!!
POV: your a British child doing this for drama work
Yup
yes
Came here after Genshin reference to this .
been out of school for many years and just watching this for fun cuz I find it interesting. but I've alway been a nerd for this kind of thing, even in school.
What is the structure of that diagram called? I've seen it in a few other contexts
this was very helpful in understanding the stock characters. Thank you for making and sharing this
They never mentioned the Scaramouche.
Javier at one point true, but Shakespeare couldn't handle him after a week.
IM HERE FOR SCHOOOOLLLL
Same😭😭😭😭
Well articulated!
Thx for the video really helpful for my drama play
I want everyone to know that this is but a version of this art. I actually go to a dell'Arte trust me i know
Columbina is beautiful af
The part of anatomy between the hips is not the knee.
I have to do this for drama work in the 3rd lockdown, we've watched 5 different ones at this point
Is Colombina is the servant category?
Didi Hopkins is an absolute treasure
He is giving an reference once in a while about some characters in a word, I don't know if it is a movie or a play. And with my poor English I couldn't get the title. Could some one help me?
Carlos Eduardo Rosado Torres Fawlty Towers? She compares Commedia to different characters from the TV show Fawlty Towers.
=D. Thank you very much. I was wondering... :P Hugs from Brazil!
Thank you so much this has helped me a lot :)