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 ä 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.
| ISBN: | 9781557832146 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2000 |
| Author: | Maria Aitken |
| Publisher: | Applause an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 142 pages |
| Series: | The Applause Acting Series |
| Genres: |
Acting techniques |