Acting Comedy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Olsen, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite being roundly cited as much harder to perform than its dramatic counterpart, comic acting is traditionally seen as a performance genre that can't be taught. At best it is often described as a skill that can only be learned 'on the job' through years of practice, or given to a performer through natural talent. Acting Comedy is an effort to examine this idea more rigorously by looking at different aspects of the comic actor's craft.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317486640
• Artikelnr.: 43729932

Autorenporträt

Christopher Olsen began as an actor in the Off-Off Broadway theatre scene in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s and later received his PhD in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Maryland. He continues to work as a Drama professor at the University of Puerto Rico.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acting Comedy 1. 'Through Wall's Chink'. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting
Ian Wilkie 2. Straight Line/Wavy Line
Steve Kaplan 3. Using Punctuation to Facilitate Comedy in the plays of George Bernard Shaw and Beyond
Candice Brown 4. Comedy Through Commedia
Judith Chaffee 5. Physicalizing Farce
Davis Rider Robinson 6. Comic Gesture Using "Viewpoints"
Christopher Olsen 7. Playing with language: wit and wordplay
Merry Conway 8. Comedy Structure and Acting Choices
Greg Dean 9. 'The Secret of Great Comedy
Scott Meltzer 10. Unexpected: 5 ¿ Rules to Better Improvisation
Shad Willingham