Comedy acting for theatre : the art and craft of performing in comedies /

Rooted in performance and performance criticism Comedy Acting for Theatre is a textbook which offers a detailed examination of how comedy works, along with advice for the actor sending a comic message, allowing them to better understand the communication of comedy from the point of view of both the...

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Main Authors: Homan, Sidney, 1938- (Author), Rhinehart, Brian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2018]
Series:Performance books
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Why we laugh -- Improv and comedy -- Basic rules for the comic actor -- Elements of the comic character -- Psychological and performance issues in playing comedy -- Playing the whole comedy -- Options in playing Shakespeare's comedy -- The actor and four forms of comedy -- Coda: the audience. 
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