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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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.