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Arezzo (Tuscany)

Jeremy Koh
2005-11-05 11:58:07

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the Florentine gateway, because it faces the Valdarno and Florence. By then I was already near the end of my one hour break and I had no choice but to run back to the house to meet up with the rest. The fact that it took me only around ten minutes to run from one end of Arezzo to the other shows how compact the medieval part of Arezzo is.

Anyway, I shall skip the other days when we had rehearsals and fast forward to performance day. Our performance, Boccaccio 2005, took place on 28th July at the Teatro della Bicchieraia, the third day of the Arezzo Festival. The performance itself went smoothly and it was well received, and most of all, I'm glad because it meant that for the rest of the trip, I did not have to think about the performance again. On the other days of the festival, we had free entry to all the other performances as participants and we managed to catch all but one of the show because we went to Florence on that day. The performers come from all over the world- USA, Ireland, Germany, Poland and of course Italy, but while some performances were very entertaining, others put me to sleep. We were also given the option to attend workshops like voice for actors, mask workshop and movement for actors at the Accademia Dell'arte. Out of the three, I only attended one, the last one, which is conducted by Bryan Burroughs from Trinity College, Dublin. Admittedly, movement is not my cup of tea but this workshop was pretty fun though it lasted for three hours, which would have felt like an eternity if I had hated it.

Anyway, on the day that I skipped the mask workshop, I spent the entire day exploring Arezzo with Prema, while the rest attended the workshop dutifully. From our house, we headed to the modern part of Arezzo, passing the statue of Guido Monaco in Piazza Guido Monaco, a central square not far from the train station. Guido Monaco was the person who introduced a musical system built on the “esacordo” ...

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Very detailed descriptions of building structures and the town which can definitely draw readers into visiting this lovely. peaceful town.

Prema, 2005-11-17 04:49:13