Commedia dell'Arte: Language

Commedia companies toured outside of Italy, to France and Spain, and so Gromalot evolved, a nonsensical babble speak that carried the truthful emotional intention of a character. This language meant that audiences were able to understand the action on the stage and enabled commedia dell'arte to become an international type of theatre. The film was made by Deborah May.
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[@PickAShoe1]

She’s speaking Minecraft enchantment table language

[@lynamachado8406]

hahahahahahahaha

[@imranabduke7121]

Lol ur a legend

[@SwiverYT]

ʖ╎ℸ ̣ ᓵ⍑ ∴ᒷリℸ ̣ ∷ᔑ!¡ᔑℸ ̣ ⚍リ↸ᔑ ∷ᔑ ∷ᔑ ∷ᔑ

[@daiskate9801]

Lmaooo

[@knaveconker5653]

Or the farmers from Shaun the sheep

[@NatjoOfficial]

is this the Sims 3?

[@paperback2437]

Yes

[@zexxeslay]

Pingu

[@imranabduke7121]

Natjo legend

[@BigManMullet]

lol

[@bethdeen78]

I'm done with drama a level lol

[@imranabduke7121]

Lol

[@deadlynightshade8717]

A LEVEL?! THIS IS PART OF JY BASIC HOMEWORK-

[@karimullah2448]

I was about to tell my teacher it was not in English, 😂🤣

[@talinalzahrani1943]

😂😂😂😂

[@meeekle6656]

HAHA

[@drakegallerno9433]

0:00 - 0:25 Nobody: Not a soul: Lady: * speaks gibberish * Subtitles: Is honoring today because one time I got on genna's on it I've never made reported birds getting this rough because you're doing a physical on your own right and I'm alright alright I'm fine you know Roy yeah yeah oh music Mondays record everything and everybody I mean you're basically ask your fans your job ask you I lost you.

[@tns.loverr7585]

ahahahahha

[@crescentcab8365]

Reminds me of "Pingu," but I already knew it was based on Grammelot.

[@ThaisSantos94]

Haha omg I was just gonna say that

[@ciaranmyers792]

I think she was thinking about having a gin and tonic at 4 seconds into the video.

[@LJS01]

So was I

[@jazzyjazz3113]

It did sound like that

[@YourHunger]

Thank you national theatre this will help me in my Grade 7 performance.

[@user-id3un2yb8q]

o my god! They are all master levels, my team would have just started to grin or laugh at each other's when they do this.

[@markavellimedina2857]

Me and my sister used to do this shit when we were kids lmfao 😂😂😂

[@frenchschoolwork9930]

*My sister and I*

[@saffron268]

@@frenchschoolwork9930 me and I 😏

[@EnchantedSleepStories]

There are no words for how fantastic this is! LOVE!

[@imranabduke7121]

M Living Art i dont get how ppl understand this

[@andreacondello]

Just a typical conversation in Italy

[@keicbell]

Didi! I love you and your work. I miss seeing you and its a joy to have you 'pop up' on my screen. Thanks as always for your amazing work. Kei

[@nickiminajfan0738]

1:52 - 2:15 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒕 3𝒂𝒎

[@VOX____]

Who is doing this for homework / / /

[@megangreend8207]

Me

[@mbm-productions]

Me

[@sqquidsx]

not me im here for fun 😭😭

[@stevenbosch429]

I think the closest we Americans may have come to practitioners of Gromalot were the comedians Sid Caesar and Alan Arkin. As a boy, Caesar worked in his parents delicatessen in Yonkers where polish speaking and slavic speaking workers would have their lunch. Caesar started imitating the sounds and rhythms for his friends. Later in the Show of shows he and the cast did send ups (probably travesties is the correct britisn word) on the recently imported Italian films and some opera besides. Alan Arkin recalled how one night when he was in the improvisation group, "The Committee" they had a question and answer session with the audience with Arkin playing Nikita Kruschev and another actor playing his interpreter. The most successful night for the audience, and the most terrifying for the actors, came when Groucho Marx joined the audience. Arkin used a Russian sounding Gromalot. He said he knew no Russian and didn't even really know anything about Krushchev. He wore a "flat cap" because he thought it made him look more proletarian.

[@mamutepeq]

NOOT NOOT

[@TheTranceCartel]

Yeah, I'm here for the same reason

[@zexxeslay]

#r/beatmetoit

[@molliemyhill1578]

the comments are the best part of this lmao

[@huckleberryfinney4393]

She is absolutely brilliant!!!

[@kharris3352]

Thank you for this instructional video!

[@callumdogan7686]

She spoke pure shadow henchman

[@DrDribs]

As an Australian I clearly understood your second example.

[@hopefulmelancholy7514]

Watching this for online History of World Theater I class in California,USA.Looks like lots of fun.

[@pinotnoir4234]

my sims telling me they have to pee real bad

[@silviabatista184]

I love this because I actually do this and I didn't knew that it had a name

[@jem3069]

anyone else watching this for home learning

[@daiskate9801]

me:(

[@habeeb3743]

Yup🙄🔫

[@seaweed4429]

i have to watch this for my drama lessons-

[@rudydsouza7432]

She's spitting facts icl man

[@amandaaraujo-rr1xj]

Professor McGonagall after smoke the philosopher stone😂

[@akirakapadia7763]

Lol had to watch this for Hw any1 else

[@e14or14k]

me lmao

[@hollypiccinin3797]

me

[@motcher5725]

half life 3 comifirmed?

[@huckleberryfinney4393]

Where can I find more of her?

[@Concretelytrue111]

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@ALBIBISBIS]

Gromalot? Sounds like a mish mash of cockney and German.

[@user-kt1no7yx1u]

Maybe some Russian

[@rilee3131]

Animal crossing villagers be like:

[@alexstarodubtsev4861]

She speaking enchantment table

[@cherrih.6078]

my autistic ass: "you,,, communicating with noises EXISTED?? AND ITS THEATRE???!? SIGN ME UP"

[@nickiminajfan0738]

𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆

[@jjcsa3]

Uhh, Did this woman have some sort of stroke at the beginning of the video cause I couldn't understand anything I could only make out a couple of words.

[@user-uq4vm7nk8w]

🧡❤💚💜

[@lewiscollins5320]

My guy Didi Hopkins is speaking fricking mythical Chinese

[@hypatobayt2855]

Is it me or did I hear gin and tonic in here?

[@MackaEdits]

Sup 11RX Homies! Its ya boy Finn Mackenzie here.

[@The_Roach_Hiding_In_Your_Room]

Dudes on stage: Garbado fluba dupen gamama leep lob Church: they're speaking the language of satan

[@vestage.]

0:50 🙋

[@cedric3742]

maakt aa eigen van kant

[@tobyjacksteit853]

She just built different

[@oddbros6033]

Think I just had a stroke

[@te9591]

1:50 lol

[@r4nd0mzzz]

1:35 I'm pretty sure the guy on the right is going through divorce

[@deadlynightshade8717]

This is comedy-ohhhhh

[@Saaimaegha]

who came here cauz of their drama task

[@Saaimaegha]

me

[@zexxeslay]

Anyone want to understand pingu

[@ex_alok1936]

Sad

[@Ahoitjackyxx]

This is basically sims

[@hilariousbenjamin5614]

Tfw you don't understand a word of Venitian and you watch an actual Goldoni play in Venitian

[@gilangsetyawibawa185]

More like Cirque language

[@brokebstudies]

lmao we all be doing this as drama work

[@PickAShoe1]

💀💀💀

[@Ayano026]

😂

[@el_spaghetto]

*Down, downn, downnn, downnnn, down*

[@sourfrog4263]

this is what english sounds like to non english speakers

[@adyanuddin9109]

what in the actual f-

[@humanbeing-fu8uc]

This is normal

[@adyanuddin9109]

@@humanbeing-fu8uc how

[@pparisps5141]

Anime be like

[@TheUltimateMarioFan]

Throwing "the Church" under the bus seems like the cool thing to do these days.

[@joshuahill2715]

I'm going to be the pedant on this 5 year old comment to point out that she isn't "throwing 'the Church' under the bus," she is speaking about how the Catholic Church, the predominant ruling authority of Europe, attempted to hold control over the very thoughts of the citizenry (eg. The Inquisition) by violently oppressing ideas that opposed them. Her point was that grammelot allowed commedia troupes to create art that broke those covenants because they were not actually SAYING anything blasphemous to the church.

[@rafikhan8413]

speaking like a boomer

[@ttvad_pds9724]

She do be a Karen explaining why wearing a mask can suffocate you

[@hyperz_yt2899]

This is the worst thing i've ever seen

[@kennitells4264]

what do you mean?

[@LJS01]

Stop ....... Just stop

[@Oliver-Zachary-Langhelt]

No u

[@Jo-qc6mk]

Lol, u know this is an actually type of play right? U can’t just change history