Acting comedy /
Edited by Christopher Olsen.
- xii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Through wall's chunk" ; or, Audience interplay in comic acting / Ian Wilkie -- Straight line/wavy line / Steve Kaplan -- Using punctuation to facilitate comedy in the plays of George Bernard Shaw and beyond / Candice Brown -- Comedy through commedia / Judith Chaffee -- Physicalizing force / Davis Rider Robinson -- Comic gesture using "viewpoints" / Christopher Olsen -- Playing with language : wit and wordplay / Merry Conway -- Comedy structure and acting choices / Greg Dean -- The secret of great comedy / Scott Meltzer -- Unexpected : 5 1/2 rules to better improvisation / Shad WIllingham.