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

Name: Why Is That So Funny? A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy
Price: 15.77 USD
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ISBN: 9780879103439

ISBN-10: 0879103434

ISBN-13: 9780879103439

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Wright, Toby Jones

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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.

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction : about laughter



The gentle art of playfulness


Play


Complicity


Theatre as game



Messing about with meaning


States of tension


Rhythm


Timing


Making choices and shaping action



The gentle art of idiocy


Simple clown


Pathetic clown


Tragic clown



The gentle art of ridicule


Parody


Pastiche


Caricature


Burlesque


Buffoon