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Set in a sunset landscape, the exquisitely painted composition shows a couple embracing while Mezzetin, a stock character from Italian commedia dell'arte, tunes his guitar nearby.

In the Actor's Gang workshop, prisoners put on the clothes and make-up of characters from a type of theatre called commedia dell'arte - such as Pierrot, Harlequin or Columbine - and start improvising.

The revolutionary 1912 score for five instrumentalists and a vocalist sets texts by the Belgian Symbolist Albert Giraud that offer a surreal update on commedia dell'arte.

The second centers on the sad side of commedia dell'arte clowns.

Being an "experience designer", Ben-Hayoun draws on the influence of commedia dell'arte, a form of comedy that originated in 16th-century Italy, in which actors play stock characters based on universal types, indicated by masks.