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Author Blumenfeld, Robert, author.

Title All the tricks of the trade : everything you need to know about comedy - a practical handbooks and complete performance guide for actors, writers, and directors / Robert Blumenfeld.

Publication Info. North Charleston, South Carolina : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ©2014
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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  792.028 BLUMENFELD    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 428 pages ; 23 centimeters
Note Includes appendices, glossary and bibliography.
Summary "A must for actors, writers and directors! 'All the Tricks of the Trade...' is an indispensable handbook and practical performance manual, which lives up to its title. It provides a detailed guide to performing all genres of all periods, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, including comedy of manners, farce, the comic film, and the television sitcom. It gives actors, directors and writers all the details fo how to create comedic characters using the Stanislavsky system. Actors and directors will constantly consult chapter 1, with its compendium of all the comedic tools and techniques (how to tell jokes, the different takes, deadpan, double-talk, etc.) and its summary of Iazzi and physical comedy techniquest (different kinds of falls, dealing with props, faked injuries, and so forth.)" -- back cover.
Subject Comedy -- Technique.
Method acting.
Wit and humor -- Technique.
Acting -- Study and teaching.
Comedy -- Authorship.
Wit and humor -- Authorship.
Stand-up comedy.
Theater -- Production and direction.
ISBN 9781502973832 (paperback)
1502973839 (paperback)
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