A Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-03552-2 (ISBN)
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.
Chris Head has established himself as one of the UK's leading comedy coaches and has twenty years’ experience as a director of live shows. As director he has worked on shows at all the major venues of the Edinburgh Fringe, across London including Soho and Bloomsbury Theatres, on national UK tours and internationally at the likes of Melbourne and Adelaide Comedy Festivals, and LA Shorts Comedy Film Festival.
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 & Stand-Ups Work Together
Act 2: Writing & Performing Stand-up
4. The Interplay Between Writing and Performance
5. Writing Jokes: Afterthoughts & Beforethoughts
6. Re-Writing Jokes: To Fix Them, Improve Them and Suit the Teller
7. It Takes Two: Incongruity, Transpositions, Analogies, Personification & Bathos
8. Developing and Structuring Stories & Routines
9. Set-up/Payoff in Stories & Routines
10. Directing the Stand-up Performance
Act 3: Full Length Shows & 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
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.08.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Performance Books |
Zusatzinfo | 2 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 254 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-03552-1 / 1350035521 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-03552-2 / 9781350035522 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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