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Style: Acting in High Comedy

Style: Acting in High Comedy

Paperback

Series: Applause Books

Acting & Auditioning

ISBN10: 1557832145
ISBN13: 9781557832146
Publisher: Applause Books
Published: Feb 1 2000
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
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.

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