8/10
Comedy alternates with tragedy
21 January 2023
An American reviewer is puzzled that some of the sketches are not funny, imagining that this is supposed to be a series of comedies like an American production. However Commedia All'italiana, what this comes from, was obviously not comedy in the modern English sense. A comedy is a narrative that does not end in tragedy e.g. The Divine Comedy. An actor can be la comedienne in French but not a comedian! Even Hollywood has produced films with Jack Lemmon for instance that mix comedy and tragedy. I am not an expert on Tragicomedy and why it was so different in England than Italy but others can explain it.
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