Style: Acting in High Comedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557832146)

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.

Author: Maria Aitken
ISBN-10: 1557832145
ISBN-13: 9781557832146
Publisher: Applause Books
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2000
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.29w x 0.40d