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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Head, Chris,

Titel

A director's guide to the art of stand-up comedy

Ort / Verlag

London ; : Methuen Drama,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2018]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Foreword: Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor -- Act 1: On Stage Identity/Off-Stage Process -- 1. Directing the Persona: The Comedic Self -- 2. Where Comic Ideas Come From (And How to Cultivate Them) -- 3. How Directors and Stand-Ups Work Together -- Act 2: Writing and Performing Stand-up -- 4. The Interplay Between Writing and Performance -- 5. Writing Jokes: Afterthoughts and Beforethoughts -- 6. Re-Writing Jokes: To Fix Them, Improve Them and Suit the Teller -- 7. It Takes Two: Incongruity, Transpositions, Analogies, Personification and Bathos -- 8. Developing and Structuring Stories and Routines -- 9. Set-up/Payoff in Stories and Routines -- 10. Directing the Stand-up Performance -- Act 3: Full Length Shows and Theatre -- 11.Developing and Structuring Full-Length Shows -- 12. Vulnerability and Pain in Stand-up Shows -- 13. Case Study: The Naked Racist -- 14. Stand-Ups Do Theatre -- 15. Theatre Makers Influenced by Stand-up -- Afterword: The End.
• "Stand-up: it's the ultimate solo art form. Yet, behind the scenes, you will increasingly find the shadowy figure of a director. For comics themselves and for those who support them, this is the first book to give the director's perspective on creating and performing stand-up comedy. Drawing on his own experience of directing stand-up alongside speaking to comedians and their directors, Chris Head produces a revealing perspective on the creative process, comic persona, writing stand-up, structuring material and delivering a performance. Directors interviewed include Logan Murray, John Gordillo and Simon McBurney, who between them have directed Eddie Izzard, Michael McIntyre, Milton Jones, Lenny Henry and French & Saunders. With a foreword by BBC arts editor Will Gompertz and contributions from many other interviewees including Oliver Double (author of Getting the Joke), this is the only book that goes all the way from one-liners to theatre via comedy club sets and full-length shows. Perfect for stand-ups from newbies to pros, students of comedy, academics studying and teaching stand-up and for directors themselves, A Director's Guide to the Art of Stand-up offers hundreds of inspiring practical insights and shows how creating the comedian's highly personal, individual act can be a deeply collaborative process."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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