At the age of 14, Avital left his home in Sefrou to travel (via Algiers and France) to the newly. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Samuel Avital was born Shmuel Abitbol in 1932,1 in the small town of Sefrou,2 near Fez, in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Buy Mime and Beyond: The Silent Outcry by Avital, Samuel (ISBN: 9780934252102) from Amazon's Book Store. (This custom is remembered when Marcel Marceau's assistant shows us a card bearing the title of the coming scene.). Samuel Ben-Or Avitalis a professionally trained mime artist, teacher of mime, kinesthetic awareness, and Kabbalah. They acted out of doors and at first scrolls covered with explanatory verse were shown as an accompaniment to the mimes. The actors, called forains, appearing at the great fairs, the Foire de Saint Germain or the Foire de Saint Laurent. When the Commedia dell'arte spread to France, mime took on greater importance. 'The most famous of the Commedia dell'arte characters are Harlequin, Pierrot and Columbine. Italian and Sicilian players were especially adept at this new type of mime play, which was called Commedia dell'arte all'improviso - a comedy improvised by professional actors. Along with these possible descendants came another - Arlechino (or Harlequin), who is supposed to be a memory of the god Mercury.

Some authorities believe that the link between the Pappus, Maccus and Bucco of Roman days and the fifteenth-century Pantaloon, Clown and Punchinello is firm and complete. Characters with some similarity to those of the ancient Roman mimes were appearing in a new form. In one of the films that still exists, and which is called FACES (1976), two woman interact. Long before the seventeenth century, Europe had seen the start of a vitally important theatrical movement.

Mime and Beyond by Samuel Avital