Why Is That So Funny? : A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy

John Wright

ISBN 10: 0879103434 / ISBN 13: 9780879103439

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Apr 2007, 2007

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Neuware - This unique exploration of the principles and practice of physical comedy starts with a discussion of the various types of laughter that can be provoked by performance. It then presents graduated sequences of over a hundred games and exercises devised to demonstrate and investigate the whole range of comic possibilities open to a performer. The result is an intensely practical and thoroughly stimulating investigation of how comedy works in physical terms.

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• Titolo: Why Is That So Funny? : A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Apr 2007
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0879103434
• ISBN 13: 9780879103439
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 140 A x 19 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 140 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 446 grammi

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(Book). This unique exploration of the principles and practice of physical comedy starts with a discussion of the various types of laughter that can be provoked by performance. It then presents graduated sequences of over a hundred games and exercises devised to demonstrate and investigate the whole range of comic possibilities open to a performer. The result is an intensely practical and thoroughly stimulating investigation of how comedy works in physical terms.

Informazioni sull?autore

John Wright is co-founder of Trestle Theatre Company and Told by an Idiot. He is also an inspirational teacher, who has worked with many other theater companies, including Complicite.