コメディア デッラルテ ト キョウゲン : トウザイ ワライ ノ コウリュウ

The purpose of this project was to put on the stage a performance of Italian Commedia dell\u27arte and to compare it with Japanese traditional comedy Kyogen. It was organized as a joint research project by three professors of Sizuoka University of Art and Culture: Kazufumi Takada, Akihiko Senda and Naohiko Umewaka.The stage performance and symposium were open to the public and were held on September 9th 2000 in the auditorium of the University with an audience of about 320. First the Teatro Paravento Company presented a piece of Commedia dell\u27arte entitled "I casi della fame e dell\u27amore" (The Story of Hunger and Love), with traditional masks and costumes. The performance seemed to be well understood and very much appreciated by Japanese audience, even though actors spoke mainly in Italian. This is partly because the performers of Commedia dell\u27arte tend to make much use of gestures and body languages. Then, in the symposium, after watching a part of Kyogen performance on the video, Takada, Umewaka and David M. Zurbuchen, leader of the Paravento, discussed similarities and differences between two traditional styles of comedy. During the discussion participants dealt with various topics such as: stylization of acting, stock characters, use of masks, role of the actress, speed and rhythm of acting, hystorical backgrounds and developments of these two styles, etc