ABSTRACT
Jacques Lecoq was a fencer before he became an actor. In 1945 he worked with Jean Dasté’s Comédiens de Grenoble. There he assimilated Copeau’s ideas from Dasté and Léon Chancerel, returning to Paris two years later to teach. In 1948 he went to Italy, where he was to remain for eight years during which time he founded the Teatro dell’Università di Padova and began mask work with Amleto Sartori. As a movement director he worked on some sixty productions in Syracuse, Rome, Venice and finally at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano where he collaborated with Strehler and with Dario Fo. That work has already been described in Part I of this book and the resulting production of The Servant of Two Masters in the previous chapter.
