Style - Acting in High Comedy

Informationen zum Autor By (composer) Maria Aitken Klappentext This book isn't a critical examination of high comedy. Rather, it's a collection of suggestions for the middlemen: the actors who have to catch the comic spark from the playwright and pass it on to the audience. The effort involved must be imperceptible: one has to acquire the cleverness, the articulacy, the febrility of the characters - and then make the whole laborious exercise seem like swimming through silk...The characters in high comedies don't find verbal sophistication difficult or unfamiliar; they enjoy it as you might enjoy slang.A practical guide to developing fully-realized characters in high comedy. There are chapters on high comedy, naturalism and energy, repartee and irony, character and what is style.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Aitken
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1996
• EAN: 9781557832146
• ISBN: 978-1-55783-214-6
• No. of pages: 142
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Applause Acting Series; LIVRE SUR LA MU; LIVRE SUR LA MU; Applause Books
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music