Sidney Homan

Comedy Acting for Theatre

The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies

Ebook (PDF Format)

Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable - and hilarious - performances.Rooted in performance and performance criticism, Sidney Homan and Brian Rhinehart provide a detailed explanation of how comedy works, along with advice on how to communicate comedy from the point of view of both the performer and the audience. Combining theory and performance, the authors analyse a variety of plays, both modern and classic. Playwrights featured include Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Christopher Durang, and Michael Frayn. Acting in Sha… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Rhinehart, Brian

ISBN: 978-1-350-01275-2
EAN: 9781350012752
Produktnummer: 25800459
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 15'678 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Sidney Homan is Professor of English at the University of Florida, a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, and an actor and director in commercial and university theatres, The author of eleven books on Shakespeare and the modern theatre, his A Fish in the Moonlight: Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit recounts stories of his youth in South Philadelphia and his experience telling them to children on the bone marrow unit of his university's hospital. More recently he has published The Audience As Player: Interactive Theatre Over the Years and Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Führer on Film.