Teatro Punto (Stichting Commedia )

Teatro Punto makes theatre where the actor is the author of the story. As the actor on stage is stripped of supports such as extended settings and a fixed script, he can become the author of a tragicomic show. He does this through movement, text, techniques, imagination and the drift to perform.Teatro Punto’s main source of inspiration is Commedia dell'Arte. With its famous masks and archetypes, Commedia dell'Arte is the first professional actors' theater in history. Some such better known archetypes are Pantalone, an old man that holds on to anything because death is calling, and Il Capitano, the one who pretends to be everything he's not. Hatred, fear and desire are significant emotions brought forward by these characters. The most important motives are survival, love, money and starvation. Teatro Punto occupies itself with the archetypes of today while developing a very characteristic and contemporary universal actors' theater. Full of acting possibilities it is precise and vulnerable, yet above all else it is alive. The Company wants to bring together nationality's. In popular tradition the Archetypical mask appears as a social liberation from taboos and as a cultural expression of the common people. The archetypes from Commedia dell'Arte come from Popular Culture. All of them have appeared from the antiquity to our present days. They are universal and immortal.