Mask och Commedia Centrum

Commediagillet

Commediagillet is Mask and Commedia Centre’s official theatre group based in Sweden. In our performances we work with mask, clown and puppet theatre to treat various social problems such as bullying, exclusion, racism and the environment in an entertaining and fun way. We perform in preschools, schools, parks and all other places where we can reach an audience.

Performances

Best Friends

A clown performance about bullying and best friends for children between 6 and 12 years old.

Welcome to a home consisting of nothing more than an umbrella with tea bags and enjoy a story of alienation, bullying, but most of all about friendship.
The hermit living in his own world with only one company in the form of his musical neighbor in a box next to it. His life is turned upside down when he receives an unexpected visit from his energetic cousin and a hungry dog.
After the show, we have a discussion with the children and teachers about bullying and friendship.

The elephant

Inspired by the story by Mrozek with the same name but completely different.

A comic mask performance about a pretend animal farm with pretend animals in a little made-up fantasy village far away. Is the village a normal village? What happens when the village mayor wants a real elephant in the zoo? A play about corruption and nepotism. Entertainment for children and adults. Audience review: "a creative show. All three of you were good. You really brought the story to life. Playful, imaginative and artistic. And it's a real shame about animals living in cages in theme parks."

The Knight Quijote

An adult puppetry performance about dreaming on a better world.

"In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not want to remember, lived not so long ago a poor noble of the type having a lance and an ancient shield on the wall. "
So begins the story of Don Alonso Quijano who in his imagination, go out into the world as a knight-errant in search of adventure.

Waiting for the Bus.

About relationships between strangers on a bus stop and the everyday stress. For the whole family.

In today's modern society there is a lot to do, The bus is one of these things. One goes to work, to the store, the family.   There are so many destinations we have in life and the bus is one of the means of transport that will take us there, hopefully.  
But what do we get from constantly chasing after the bus? Yes, stress. And the stress is rarely good for us, neither mentally nor physically.

Clown & Co

An original and entertaining clown performance that offers a lot of humor.


A performance for children as well as adults. Commediagillet estimated clowns have performed apart from in Sweden, in Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Switzerland and England. We can also mingle with your guests and entertain them.

Laughter, best medicin

Miss Elvira and Epin, these clowns come to your event and perform or mingle. We have entertained cancer sick children and their family at Ronald MacDonald's house in Uppsala, but our program is suitable for all children.

"Epin and Elvira are a fun break in an dificult situation, they are easy-going, fun and make the children participate and laugh. It's really needed when you're away from home, from relatives and friends for a long time. So much appreciated visits by both children and parents "

Lotta Sterning Operations Manager Ronald McDonald House in Uppsala

Marcel

A clown performance for adults about human relationships

"Three clowns end up in unexpected situations in search of contact and comfort. A portrait of our human weaknesses and how we try to overcome them"

’Pierre’

a monolog performance about bullying

we get to follow Pierre, a person in his 20s who is studying at the Theater Academy. A happy and confident person. One day he gets a letter from a high school student . The student asks one question that forces Pierre to think back on his tough school time. The performance is mainly aimed at middle school students but can be used to advantage both high school and primary school.

Borderland

Travel to Borderland

The empty space between life and death. Does it exist? Is it really empty? What happens when we die and before we can move on? A monologue about being in this room with all the comedy and drama of life. .

Ztrapatz

Ztrapatz

Epin and Odojon in an original and entertaining clown show that offers a lot of humor. Epin tries to become a magician with mixed success, Odojon is the sporty one in the duo, both want to entertain their audience with different numbers.

Other work

We want to focus on refugee children. Children are children, whether they are refugees or Swedes, and we have the same obligation to take care of them. Many of these refugees have been in a terrible situation during their flight from war in their countries of origin, we want to give them the opportunity to forget about these problems for a while with our games and performances.

Our idea is to work with the kids through mingling, games and simple acrobatic exercises. We perform without words so that everyone can understand and the instructions for the games and exercises are easy to take even for those who do not speak Swedish.

Everyone in the group has worked with children in different contexts and we have been on behalf of Clowns without Borders in the refuges homes when we performed and mingled with the children who lived there.

We have also entertained cancer sick children and their family at Ronald MacDonald's house in Uppsala.

Courses

Clown

Finding your own clown. To build a clown figure with yourself as a starting point. Being able to turn the most embarrassing personal experiences into a comic event. The audience laughs at the clown because they recognize themselves in the little exposed person.

Comic characters

Being able to create a comic character with different starting points and develop it by putting the character into different situations. The course includes improvisation, physical form, character analysis, etc.

Bouffons

Are very grotesque characters with a strong exaggerated look that always works in groups and questions everything that people take for granted. Comparing them with clowns, one can say that the audience laughs at the clown, but Bouffons laughs at the audience.

Street theatre

Performing on the street sets quite different requirements than performing in a closed hall, one has to draw the audience's attention and keep their interest despite traffic and other disturbing factors. We go through technology to achieve this. What characteristics do the play and actor need to have in order to succeed outdoors?

Storytelling

People have always been fascinated by stories. In this course we go through not only articulation and voice use but also how to use different objects or one's own body to illustrate the story and make it more interesting for the listener.

Mask performance

We go through different masks: from the neutral mask that develops body consciousness through different character masks where we learn to find the mask's body and movement, to the half mask where we also find the voice of the character.

Mask making

A course on how to plan and sketch a mask that works on stage and about different materials and techniques to build masks for the stage. The materials we use are paper marché, gauze and glue and leather and we go through different techniques like positive and negative form, gypsum casting, leather work, etc.

Puppetry

A course on materials and technology for making different types of puppets and learning to perform with them. We go through marionettes, handpuppets, rodpuppets, bunraku, etc. And how to build a stage for each type of puppet.

Commedia dell`Arte

Performing technique and character gestalting in this old but very alive performing tradition. We go through the most important characters in Commedia dell`Arte, their body posture, movement patterns, character traits and performing techniques. We also make a theoretical review of Commedia dell'Arte's history.

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Who are we?

Augusto Cabrera

Augusto has long experience in Commedia dell' Arte, mask performance, puppetry, stage production, clown, anticlown, bouffon and much more. He is also active as an actor, director, and mask and puppet maker. Augusto is educated in art and theater in Peru and Brazil, but also in Italy (Commedia dell' Arte and Leather Mask for Donato Sartori), at the Odin Theater in Denmark (director), at the Dockteater Institute of Mikael Meschke, etc. He is the artistic director and director of Commediagillet, which he founded in 1995.

AnneLee Vikner

AnneLee has worked as an actor since -99, when she graduated from Folk University's Theater Academy. She has then been trained in Sweden and Beverly Hills, L A. She has worked with touring children's theater (Ten Feet) and self-produced plays with her group Tornet Productions. She has been commissioned by the Criminal Care Act as an actor and dramacoach and worked as an actor in the Defense and Police Law School's programs. Participated in SVT, among others The Denounced, with Rolf Lassgård, Pia Green et al.

Morgan Tolsén

Started early in life to learn to play different musical instruments. Educated to be a musician and at the same time began to perform as a singer, took vocal lessons for, among others, the Opera Singer and teacher Arne Ohlson in vocal and speech care. With the song, he noticed that he had fallen for theater and went to study at Folk University and Stockholm Theater Institute. Started in 2001 at Commediagillet. Morgan has done many things in Commediagillet's performances, been juggler, mask and puppet player as well as clown and played and composed own music for their plays.

Esse Hellberg

Esse came to Stockholm from Halland a few years ago to study at the Stockholm Elementary Theater School. After the studies, Esse has been everything from actor to coffee maker at the theater. Through his interest in clown & commedia, Esse contacted Augusto to learn more about this topic and got recruited as an actor to Commediagillet. Esse is also studying singing for the opera singers Dag Schantz and Thomas Gorn.

Henrik Olsson

Henrik is an educated and entitled Performing Arts educator, has several educations and work experience as an actor and educator among independent groups, own projects and cultural schools and gives his own workshops. Has his major education at Novia University of applied (Finland) but also some folk high schools before that with a focus on theatre. Has also knowledge and has also been used in other art forms such as acrobatics and dance.

Jonas Blixt

Have always had an aptitude for the artistic, primarily visual arts, and discovered the theater in high school. Afterwards attended Stockholm's Elementary Theater School in 2010-2011 and has since freelanced in both theater and film. In Commediagillet, in addition to his acting, he has contributed as a playwright and director. Currently studying to become a theater teacher at the University of Gothenburg.

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Phone: +46739845164