Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & Screen is a comprehensive guide to creating comedy narratives for live performance, TV, and online, featuring interviews with stand-ups, sketch comics, improvisers, and TV comedy producers. It offers advice on using life experience, constructing comedy worlds, creating comic characters, structuring sketches, scenes, and routines, and developing and plotting stories. Format: Paperback / softback Length: 184 pages Publication date: 11 February 2021 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & Screen is a comprehensive and accessible guide to creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV, and online. It covers a wide range of comedy styles, from sketch comedy to sitcoms and comedy dramas, and includes improvisation and stand-up. The book draws on a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several decades, and includes material on contemporary internet sketches. It offers valuable advice on creating comic narratives for stage and screen, including using life experience as raw material, constructing comedy worlds, creating comic characters, their relationships and interactions, structuring sketches, scenes, and routines, and developing and plotting stories. The book's interviewees include stand-ups, sketch comics, improvisers, and TV comedy producers, and include Steve Kaplan, Hollywood comedy guru and author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy, Will Hines, teacher and improviser from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and Lucy Lumsden, TV producer and former Controller of Comedy Commissioning for BBC. Written by "the ideal person to nurture new talent" (The Guardian), Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & Screen is a stimulating resource for comedy students and their teachers, with a range and depth that will be appreciated by even the most eclectic and multi-hyphenated writers and performers. Weight: 304g Dimension: 233 x 157 x 18 (mm) ISBN-13: 9781350155756
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