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9780879103439

Why Is That So Funny?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780879103439

  • ISBN10:

    0879103434

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-04-01
  • Publisher: INGRAM

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction : about laughterp. 3
The gentle art of playfulnessp. 25
Playp. 27
Complicityp. 48
Theatre as gamep. 80
Messing about with meaningp. 97
States of tensionp. 103
Rhythmp. 123
Timingp. 145
Making choices and shaping actionp. 163
The gentle art of idiocyp. 177
Simple clownp. 179
Pathetic clownp. 219
Tragic clownp. 236
The gentle art of ridiculep. 249
Parodyp. 251
Pastichep. 270
Caricaturep. 277
Burlesquep. 288
Buffoonp. 298
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