For your final commedia dell'arte scenes, you must include:
1) a spoof of popular culture
2) a spoof of current events
3) stock characters (including the costumes that characterize the character, like red pants for Pantalone)
4) physical comedy
5) love and money plot
6) 20 jokes
7) a lazzi for each character (the lazzi should be funny)
You should be working on that monologue from the tv show, "Seinfeld", that I gave you a while back -- choose either Mary Contardi or George and memorize the lines and deliver the monologue with lots of energy.
The above photo is from the show -- Liz Sheridan as Jerry's mom, Barney Martin as Jerry's dad, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine and Jerry as himself. In this scene, Elaine is under the influence of painkillers she is taking for a bad back and she keeps imitating the great Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in which he yells "Stella!"
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