Editorial Team
Barry Grantham, Editor
Barry Grantham is a performer, director, and teacher of Commedia and related physical theatre. His background is professional theatre; his maternal grandfather was a Music Hall artiste and his father a classical actor, who first aroused an interest in the Commedia dell'Arte in his son who, as a teenager, worked as a mime artist and dancer.
He has performed and given masterclasses in Norway, Sweden, Holland, Germany, and in Italy itself at the Teatro Municipali, Reggio Emilia. He currently writes, directs and appears as a guest artist with various companies as well as running the Intention Commedia Company.
His books Playing Commedia and Commedia Plays (featuring some of his plays that will be familiar to some of you: The False Turk, Home from the Wars, and Pantalone Goes a Wooing) are published by Nick Hern Books.
© 2014 Ilja van der Pavert
Bill Tuck, Editor
Bill studied flute with Stephen Preston at Guildhall School of Music in London, and developed an interest in the problems of staging 18th-century music theatre, particularly dance and pantomime. He is a founder member of Chalemie along with his wife Barbara Segal. He performs commedia with Barry Grantham's Intention Commedia Company.
His principal interest is as a writer and deviser of 18th-century style pantomimes. With Chalemie, he has created and performed in shows in Berlin, Ghent, Moscow and Krakow, as well as touring throughout the UK. As a musician, he has played and taught pipe and tabor for many years and developed a particular interest in the 15th-century dance repertoire. As an accompanist, he has worked with a number of dance groups and dance teachers on courses and performances of early dance. He is also an enthusiastic performer upon the sackbut (or early trombone) and other brass, both early and modern.