minstrel: Acting in the Silence

[WICKHAM Raymond]

Ah haa 
One of my soap boxes
	May I suggest that Tacitus and Heroswitha are a start
	also the Early medieval drama gathering that happens in Europe
hwere they have been publishing research on early and reenactment
performance pieces for the last twenty years
The European Medieval Drama Council and the University of
Camerino(Italy) jointly sponsor an annual conference with an associated
festival and workshops. In 1999, the conference will take place from
Friday 6 August to Sunday 8 August 1999, the festival will be from
Sunday 1 to Sunday 8 August, and the intensive workshops will last for a
fortnight, commencing on Monday 26 July.
	
and the lucky web site is
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/theatre/emd.htm
also
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/theatre/emd/links.htm


	

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steven G. Anderson [SMTP:sande02 at emory.edu]
> Sent:	Saturday, 24 April 1999 4:04
> To:	minstrel at pbm.com
> Subject:	minstrel: Acting in the Silence
> 
> I know that acting survived as a popular form during the so-called
> "thousand years of silence" (during which the Catholic Church
> prohibited
> the operation of theaters) in large part due to the improvisational
> acting
> techniques of some kinds of minstrels, especially scops.
> Unfortunately,
> that's -all- I know on the subject of "improv" in between the closing
> of
> the Roman theaters and the start of the Commedia dell'Arte.  Can
> anyone
> point me toward some good resources on what exactly scops did and/or
> to
> what extent other kinds of minstrels got in on the improvisational
> action?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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