Issue 5: Spring 2022

Issue 5 cover: The Captain by Michael Ayrton, featured in an article by George Edinger, published in the magazine Ballet, 1948

The latest rich resource to join our compendium of Commedia features an article by George Edinger on Carnival, illustrated by Michael Ayrton. We welcome guest contributor John Rudlin with an article on Callot's Balli di Sfessania and regular contributor, Olly Crick serves a memorial of the wonderful Joan Schirle amongst a host of other delights.

Contents

1. Introducing Issue 5 of Zannizine: The Present Status of Commedia

2. Carnival – The Masks of Michael Ayrton introduced by Barry Grantham

3. Yes, Dark Lord by Nathan Hook

4. Joan Schirle (1944–2022) by Olly Crick

5. Books & Book Reviews:

   • Performing Commedia dell''Arte by Natalie Crohn-Schmitt

   • Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition: Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin by John Rudlin and Antonio Fava

   • Commedia dell'Arte Scenarios by Sergio Costola and Olly Crick

   • The Dramaturgy of Commedia dell'Arte by Olly Crick and Sergio Costola

   • Commedia dell’Arte for the 21st Century: Practice and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: edited by Corinna Di Niro and Olly Crick

6. Competition

7. Maurice Sand – Towards an Appraisal by Barry Grantham

8. Jacques Callot’s Balli di Sfessania by John Rudlin

9. Ends and Odds