From their Venetian roots in Carnevale, Fabio Motta discusses how the masks of Commedia dell’Arte have been brought to life in the upcoming Melbourne Comedy Festival show 🎭LITTLE DEVIL🎭
🎟️Tickets available now in bio @little.devil.show
When: March 23 - April 5, 9:30 PM nightly
Where: The Motley WhereHaus @themotleysatellites
#melbournecomedyfestival #commediadellarte #venetianmask
ID: A video of Fabio Motta speaking to camera with a drawn cartoon of Cesare Borgia behind him on an easel. The video is intercut with footage of Meg Taranto, Phoebe Mason, and Tim Sneddon rehearsing and performing in Commedia masks.
Every tyrant loves to play with his sword.
🎟️Tickets in bio @little.devil.show
🎭Little Devil and the War Machine🎭
March 23 - April 5
9:30 PM nightly
The Motley WhereHaus @themotleysatellites �#melbournecomedyfestival
ID: A video of Fabio Motta as Duke Cesare Borgia dancing with his sword, wearing a Capitano mask, rehearsing with Meg Taranto playing Salaì. They are performing in a cheeky cartoonish manner in a white walled studio with a tall ceiling and dark wooden floors.
🎭Little Devil and the War Machine🎭 brings Commedia Dell’Arte to @melbcomedyfestival after an early showing at the Fitzroy Town Hall with @cityofyarra
🎟️Tickets in bio @little.devil.show
March 23 - April 5
9:30 PM nightly
The Motley WhereHaus @themotleysatellites #melbournecomedyfestival
Video by @tomblock200
Costume pieces @josiahlulham
ID: A montage of key moments from Little Devil and the War Machine depicting Meg Taranto as Salaì, Phoebe Mason as Leonardo da Vinci, Fabio Motta as Cesare Borgia, and Tim Sneddon as Niccolò Machiavelli. The performers are wearing traditional Commedia Dell’Arte Masks, including Capitano, Brighella, and Dottore. The performance style is energetic, slapstick, and cartoonish. The performance space is an expansive wooden library hall with tall library shelves and a large mirror. There is a captive audience of 100 people.
💋Make love.💋💥Break empires.💥’Little Devil and the War Machine’ joins the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026!
Forced by a tyrant to invent the future of warfare, Leonardo da Vinci may be a Renaissance Man, but his boyfriend Salaì is a Renaissance Menace; hellbent on sabotaging sieges and dynamising desire in a camp commedia rollick that blows the dust off history with an overcompensating canon.
Witness a foolish fusion of physical comedy and satire with enough anatomical accuracy and raunchy perspective to make a master painter blush.
Poster design: @henrylucas5 🎭 Little Devil and the War Machine 🎭
📅 March 23 - April 5
🕤 9:30 PM nightly
📍 The Motley WhereHaus
Thank you to @greenroomawards for honouring me with the ‘Best Performer’ award for Spot.
Beyond grateful to all who worked on this show and those who came to support it.
This is for all migrants. I see you. Keep going.
#indepenttheatre#clown#bouffon#commedia#theatreworksstkilda#phyisucaltheatre#greenroomawards2022#migrant#actor#performer#award#grateful
@littletornadoesfilm is now showing in cinemas Australian wide. It had a special screening at my local cinema @thornbury_picturehouse this week. With a special Q&A from director @aari_r , Christos Tsiolkas, DP Stefan Duscio. Hope you can catch it at Thornubury Picture house cinema on June 2,7 and 12. Its a beautiful heartfelt film that I am very proud and grateful to be a part of 😊🙏🏽
#littletornados#thornbury#thornburypicturehouse #australiancinema#supportlocal
Something wicked this year comes for @melbcomedyfestival !
After a sell-out season in 2021! Spot returns to @theatreworksstkilda in their brand new Theatre ‘The a explosive factory’ 🧨.
Created by Fabio Motta
Co-devised and written with @johntummino and with movement director @zyalunazhing .
Tickets on sale now! See ticket link @spottheplay 🤡🧨🎉
Thank you to the amazing Jenna Lo Bianco @the.italian.teacher for your support and inspiration to create ‘italian as play’. Games and improvisations for a more embodied learning of the Italian language! Thank you for having me at the Vati 2019 conference. E viva! 🙏🏽😊🇮🇹
