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    This document provides an overview of an upcoming lecture by Giovanni Fusetti on bouffons, or comic theatrical performers who use exaggeration and mockery. Bouffons have their origins in ancient Greek satyr plays and continue a tradition of deforming oneself to provoke laughter. Fusetti will discuss the history and origins of bouffons, their relationship to clowns and comic theater, their dramatic potential, and how they use mockery of social roles, institutions, and collective issues to uncover hidden truths and provoke audiences.

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    This document provides an overview of an upcoming lecture by Giovanni Fusetti on bouffons, or comic theatrical performers who use exaggeration and mockery. Bouffons have their origins in ancient Greek satyr plays and continue a tradition of deforming oneself to provoke laughter. Fusetti will discuss the history and origins of bouffons, their relationship to clowns and comic theater, their dramatic potential, and how they use mockery of social roles, institutions, and collective issues to uncover hidden truths and provoke audiences.

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    This document provides an overview of an upcoming lecture by Giovanni Fusetti on bouffons, or comic theatrical performers who use exaggeration and mockery. Bouffons have their origins in ancient Greek satyr plays and continue a tradition of deforming oneself to provoke laughter. Fusetti will discuss the history and origins of bouffons, their relationship to clowns and comic theater, their dramatic potential, and how they use mockery of social roles, institutions, and collective issues to uncover hidden truths and provoke audiences.

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    This document provides an overview of an upcoming lecture by Giovanni Fusetti on bouffons, or comic theatrical performers who use exaggeration and mockery. Bouffons have their origins in ancient Greek satyr plays and continue a tradition of deforming oneself to provoke laughter. Fusetti will discuss the history and origins of bouffons, their relationship to clowns and comic theater, their dramatic potential, and how they use mockery of social roles, institutions, and collective issues to uncover hidden truths and provoke audiences.

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    BOUFFONS

    and the Ecstasy of Mocking



    A lecture-presentation
    with
    Giovanni Fusetti



    Where do Bouffons come from? Who are they?
    What is their relationship with Clown and Comic Theater?
    What is their dramatic potential?
    What is the relationship between Tragedy and Satire?

    During this lecture, the Italian theatre pedagogue and fool Giovanni Fusetti will
    guide the audience through the history and origins of this dramatic territory, from
    its origins in Greek theatre to its contemporary variations, and he will explore the
    unique wildness and the profound mythological and political power of Bouffons.
    The word Bouffon come from a Latin verb: buffare, to puff, to fill the cheeks
    with air, and it seems to be a very old practice of humans. To deform oneself, to
    swell in order to provoke laughter. In fact, Bouffons are direct descendants of the
    Satyrs of ancient Greek Satyr Plays or Satirical Dramas. The actual word comes
    from French bouffon and has entered the English theatrical language through the
    work of the French movement theatre master Jacques Lecoq.

    The essence of Bouffons play is in mocking: they hold a specific role, existing in
    all human societies. They represent the roles of a given society in an amplified,
    distorted, exaggerated way, therefore provoking laughter and outrage.
    These mysterious creatures, coming from elsewhere, dont have opinions, and
    dont protect any side from their mocking. Their purpose is to have fun mocking
    humans and therefore they use everything they find. This is their power: they see
    and play with everything. Bouffons are not interested in individual or private
    themes: they always take big collective movements, themes that involve the very
    essence of society in its social complexity. Politics, religion, economy, power,
    money and finances, morality, war and the army, science, gender and race,
    ecology, family, education and schoolsinstitutionsand so on.
    As a theatre genre, it is often very provocative because of its very nature of
    bringing hidden things to the surface thus unmasking the collective games that lie
    behind events. Bouffons play with what is hidden, what lies underneath, on the
    other side. In this sense, they belong to the world of Grotesque, a word coming
    from the Greek word kryptos, which means hidden.

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