Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath & Kim, in order to reveal the essential elements that must exist in a sitcom before even the first joke is written.
Follow the author as he goes on a harrowing journey from the US Olympic Training Center to homeless shelters to shooting heroin on the job to being declared dead.
Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read.
This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian art, politics and society.
In early modern Spain, the strict definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman of Catholic faith for the sole purpose of procreation became a key strategy in the production of Spain's version of empire, the Universal Catholic Monarchy.
Site-based dance performance and sited movement explorations implicate dance makers, performers and audience members in a number of dialogical processes between body, site and environment.
For all of the political, economic, and technological obstacles that stand in the way of addressing climate change, perhaps the greatest challenge is in the realm of imagination.
This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity.
Spells to empower the modern woman to exact revenge and take charge For the modern woman who wants to unleash her inner bitch, this magical book offers simple spells and incantations to exact revenge on anyone who deserves it—an evil ex, a coworker who stole her thunder, the stylist who ignored what ‘just a trim’ means, the rude idiot who won’t stop talking through the movie—the list sadly never ends.
The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand.
A charming glimpse of stage magic in the early twentieth century, this engaging manual's time-honored tricks range from sleight of hand with coins, cards, and rope to thought-reading and juggling.
Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form.
Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a dynamic way of viewing architecture arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of community and belonging, space, ritual, and setting.
Every year in downtown Las Vegas, often called "e;Old Vegas,"e; The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion brings together members of the League of Exotic Dancers, one of the earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, to perform their half-century-old routines.
Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens.
Five years ago, in the middle of a shitstorm of life events, single mother, proud Londoner and theatremaker Annie Siddons found herself living in suburbia by accident.
Featuring our greatest comedic minds on the nature of humor, its relevance in society-and why sometimes you just need a good dirty joke to cleanse the palate-Satiristas is a hilarious multi-voiced manifesto on satire and comedy presented by Paul Provenza, co-creator of The Aristocrats.
An oral history of Los Angeles independent stand-up comedy with a collection of comedian portraits from a decade of the beloved independent comedy show, The Super Serious Show.
Indispensable for anyone interested in starting or running a festival of any kind - Blackmore Vale MagazineThis book applies to all festivals - literary, music, folk, jazz, food, arts - big and small.
'A thrilling, nauseating and painfully real depiction of what happens as youth, talent and charisma sour' MEGAN NOLAN'Anyone wondering where The Great American Novel went: this is it on bail' DBC PIERREDebauched, divorced and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh.
A must-have for any aspiring actor or stage parent--the definitive guide to breaking into film, television, theater, and even YouTube from a top casting directorPacked with information that aspiring actors clamor for, this up-to-the-minute advice from a true expert is essential reading for anyone pursuing an acting career.
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical,and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects.
Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults.
*The Sunday Times Bestseller*The brand new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author of Classic Scrapes, undercover cop, receiver of cabbages.
Widely considered one of the most innovative voices in Hungarian theatre, Andras Visky has enjoyed growing audiences and increased critical acclaim over the last fifteen years.
