ARLECCHINO

Arlequin

Theater of Nice's comedian using the Arlequin mask

Stephanie Cézerac using the mask as "Carlino"

 

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Créations Bernard Farjaudou.

Arlequin is a comic personage, wearing a pants and a jacket made of different pieces very colored, a leather mask, a bonnet, and a bat at the belt.
His origin come from the antic period: <<Sannio>>, clown of latin joke, was daubed of soot and dressed with multicolored clothes. Later he became Zanni, then Arlecchino. First insolent and awkward during the sixteenth century, (cynic and coward comical) he will humanized himself gradually in the course of time (and he will become very spiritual) in Italy as well as in France.
(In France, for example Marivaux : : <<Les Jeux de l ' Amour et du hasard>>, <<Arlequin poli par l ' Amour. >>

Comedian wearing the mask of Arlecchino pour Dandin of Molière directed by Jacques Bellay. (Theater National of Nice ).

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