This lesson is an introduction to the famous Captain of Commedia dell'Arte: il Capitano. He represents the mercenary soldier and in the traditional scenarios, he comes from a foreign country. 

• The 'double mask': facade and reality
• Character's status and center of gravity
• Character's qualities: arrogant, pompous, boastful
• The Captain's posture and physical transformation
• Driving force of the mask
• The Captain's animalistic qualities
• The Captain's military physical vocabulary
• Clocking with masks: 'Colpo di Maschera technique
• The Captain's walks: kick, tin soldier, the jog, and the lunge
• The real Captain and his physicality.
• The leather mask.
• The two sides of the Captain and voice: an improvisation.