Listen: Kurt Elling Releases Double Single 'Sermonette / If It's True'
Kurt Elling released 'Sermonette / If It's True' on Big Shoulders Records following his run as Hermes in Hadestown.
Style : Acting in High Comedy – by Maria Aitken
This book isn't a critical examination of high comedy. Rather, it's a collection of suggestions for the middlemen: the actors who have to catch the comic spark from the playwright and pass it on to the audience. The effort involved must be imperceptible: one has to acquire the cleverness, the articulacy, the febrility of the characters - and then make the whole laborious exercise seem like swimming through silk...The characters in high comedies don't find verbal sophistication difficult or unfamiliar; they enjoy it as you might enjoy slang.
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Publisher: Applause Books
Released: 2000
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