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Why Is That So Funny?: A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy

This unique exploration of the principles and practice of physical comedy starts with a discussion of the various types of laughter that can be provoked by performance. It then presents graduated sequences of over a hundred games and exercises devised to demonstrate and investigate the whole range of comic possibilities open to a performer. The result is an intensely practical and thoroughly stimulating investigation of how comedy works in physical terms.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 334
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780879103439
  • Genres
  • comedy, academic
  • Release date
  • 2007