* one act fest
... dictionary/glossary : genre
on comedy acting in filmplus.org/biomx
comedy & subtext
total actor files
... comic hero (Aristotle) & comedic conflict
Commedia tradition
comic vs. dramatic (tragic, Aristotle).
... 2009 [Spring]
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2008 -- "Comedy about Tragedy" [ R/G are Dead ]
* one act fest ... dictionary/glossary : genre on comedy acting in filmplus.org/biomx comedy & subtext total actor files ... comic hero (Aristotle) & comedic conflict Commedia tradition comic vs. dramatic (tragic, Aristotle). ... 2009 [Spring]
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* 2008 -- 2003: Film600: Bad Theories, Wrong Subjects
2005: total directing & total acting 2008 : t-blog + beta.vtheatre.net online?  stanislavsky.us
comedy and comical pages in Theatre Theory * Spring 2007 : THR221 Intermediate Acting * scenes & finals [ see GROUP pages ] ... commedia = physical acting ... samples (12th Night, Shrew, Don Juan, Godot, Dada, 3 Sisters & Farces, The Importance of Being Earnest) ...
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"postmodern comedy"
... pomo.vtheatre.net
Lessons by Chaplin
BEYOND THERAPY :... monologues into scenes
Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence. Bruce doesn't know how to handle poor nervous Prudence and Prudence doesn't know what to make of her unpredictable new boyfriend. They do learn to live beyond therapy in this delightful Off-Broadway hit that moved successfully to Broadway."Offers the best therapy of all: guaranteed laughter." Time Magazine
"Filled with off beat laugh lines, wry observations on the contemporary urban psyche and situations that range from farcical to absurd." Women's Wear Daily
[ class project ]
R/G are Dead by Stoppard -- http://www.lib.ru/PXESY/STOPPARD/r_g_engl.txt
... in class analysis filmplus.org/plays/2008 :
PLAYER (mini-monologues) :
... PLAYER: Tragedy, sir. Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive. We transport you into the world of intrigue and illusion... clowns, if you like, murderers - we can do you ghosts and battles, on the skirmish levels, heroes, villains, tormented lovers - set pieces in the poetic vein; we can do you rapiers or rape or both, by all means, faithless wives and ravished virgins - flagrante delicto at a price, but that comes under realism for which there are special terms. Getting warm, am I? (act I)
[ texts ]
PLAYER: We're actors... We pledged our identities, secure in the conventions of our trade; that someone would be watching. And than, gradually, no one was. We were caught, high and dry. It was not until the murder's long soliloquy that we were able to look around; frozen we were in the profil, our eyes searched you out, first confidently, then hesitantly, then desperately as each patch of turf, each log, each exposed corned in every direction proved uninhabited, and all the while the murderous King addressed the horizon with his dreary interminable guilt... Our heads began to move, wary as lizards, the corpse of unsullied Rosalinda peeped through his fingers, and the King faltered. Even then, habit and a stubborn trust that our audience spied upon us from behind the nearest bush, forced our bodies to blunder on long after they had emptied of meaning, until like runaway carts they dragged to a halt. No one came forward. No one shouted at us. The silence was unbreakable, it imposed itself upon us; it was obscene. We took off our crowns and swords and cloth of gold and moved silent on the road to Elsinore. (Act 2)
... Situation comedy vs. comedy of Characters
subjects : scene study * actor's text * mise-en-scene * stage & chronotope * 5+ Approaches to Acting * * comedy scenes -- Mikado +
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