Description
A textbook for actors and acting students seeking to learn how to be funny onstage.
About the Author
Sidney Homan is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA, a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars and an actor and director in traditional and non-traditional theatres. The author of eleven books on Shakespeare and the modern theatre, his most recent books are The Audience As Player: Interactive Theatre Over the Years and Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Fuhrer on Film. Brian Rhinehart is an actor, director and Lecturer of Directing and Theatre History at The Actors Studio Drama School, Pace University, USA. He is Artistic Director of a theatre collective, Dog's Breakfast, and was awarded a 2012-13 Fulbright Grant to develop Dispersal: A Gentrification Story. He directed the award-winning Butoh Medea on Theatre Row in Manhattan, which also had productions in Warsaw and Edinburgh. He has performed in over fifty productions in New York City, Germany, and Florida.
Reviews
Useful advice and practical tips are spread throughout the volume. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *
If "dying is easy and comedy is hard," then Sidney Homan and Brian Rhinehart, accomplish a death-defying feat in bringing, with ease: the science, the practices and the dangers of being truly funny on stage. * Dexter Bullard, The Theatre School at DePaul University, Broadway Director and Alumni of the second City Chicago, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350012776
Author Professor Sidney Homan
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 291g