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Truth in Comedy

1994 Improvisation (Acting)
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Release : 1994
Genre : Improvisation (Acting)
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Book Synopsis Truth in Comedy by : Charna Halpern

Download or read book Truth in Comedy written by Charna Halpern. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Harold', an innovative improvisational tool, helped many actors on the road to TV and film stardom, including George Wendt (Norm on Cheers). Now it is described fully in this new book for would-be actors and comics. The 'Harold' is a form of competitive improv involving 6 or 7 players. They take a theme suggestion from the audience and 'free associate' on the theme into a series of rapid-fire one-liners that build into totally unpredictable skits with hilarious results. The 'Harold' is a fun way to 'loosen up' and learn to think quickly, build continuity, develop characterisations and sharpen humour.

Truth in Comedy: The Manual for Improvisation

1994-06 Performing Arts
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Release : 1994-06
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Truth in Comedy: The Manual for Improvisation by : Charna Halpern

Download or read book Truth in Comedy: The Manual for Improvisation written by Charna Halpern. This book was released on 1994-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to learn the improv techniques that helped Mike Myers, Chris Farley, John Belushi, and many others along the road to TV and film stardom? Then let two esteemed founders of long-form improvisational theatre, Del Close and Charna Halpern, teach you the "Harold." This groundbreaking acting exercise emphasizes pattern recognition and subversion of the audience's expectations, which are important factors for making people laugh without ever telling a joke. It involves six to seven players and many kinds of scenes: games, monologues, songs, skits and more, all of which are bound to keep both actors and audience members guessing. The Harold is non-linear entertainment that remembers everything and wastes nothing -- the key to successful improvising -- and has become a standard in comedy clubs and improv theatres around the globe.

Truth in Comedy

2009
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Release : 2009
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Book Synopsis Truth in Comedy by : Charna Halpern

Download or read book Truth in Comedy written by Charna Halpern. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Funniest One in the Room

2008-04-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008-04-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Funniest One in the Room by : Kim Howard Johnson

Download or read book The Funniest One in the Room written by Kim Howard Johnson. This book was released on 2008-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nichols and May. John Belushi. Bill Murray. Chris Farley. Tina Fey. Mike Myers. Stephen Colbert. For nearly a half century, Del Close—cocreator of the Harold, director for the Second City, San Francisco's the Committee, and the ImprovOlympic, and “house metaphysician” for Saturday Night Live—influenced improvisational theater's greatest comedic talents. His students went on to found the Groundlings in Los Angeles, the Upright Citizens Brigade in both New York and Los Angeles, and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. But this Pied Piper of improv has gone largely unrecognized outside the close-knit comedy community. Del was never one to let the truth of his life stand in the way of a good story—and yet the truth is even more fascinating than the fiction. In his early years, he traveled the country with Dr. Dracula's Den of Living Nightmares, knew L. Ron Hubbard before Scientology, and appeared in The Blob. Del cavorted with the Merry Pranksters, used aversion therapy to recover from alcoholism, and kicked a cocaine habit with the help of a coven of witches. And when he was dying, Del bequeathed his postmortem skull to the Goodman Theatre for use in its productions of Hamlet—a final legend that lives on, long beyond the death of the father of long-form improvisation.

Impro

2012-11-12 Performing Arts
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Release : 2012-11-12
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Impro by : Keith Johnstone

Download or read book Impro written by Keith Johnstone. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular helping to run the Writers' Group. The improvisatory techniques and exercises evolved there to foster spontaneity and narrative skills were developed further in the actors' studio then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers, called The Theatre Machine. Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills', and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an ideas book and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.

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