Creating Comedy Narratives For Stage and Screen
by Chris Head
This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online.
Referencing a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several decades and including material on contemporary internet sketches, it offers all kinds of useful advice on creating comic narratives for stage and screen: 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, from the UK and the USA, feature stand-ups, sketch comics, improvisers and TV comedy producers, and includeĀ Steve Kaplan, Hollywood comedy guru and author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy,Ā Will HinesĀ teacher and improviser from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre andĀ Lucy LumsdenĀ TV producer and former Controller of Comedy Commissioning for BBC.
Written by āthe ideal person to nurture new talentā (The Guardian),Ā Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & ScreenĀ includes material you won't find anywhere else and is a stimulating resource for comedy students and their teachers, with a range and a depth that will be appreciated by even the most eclectic and multi-hyphenated writers and performers.
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by Chris Head
This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online.
Referencing a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several decades and including material on contemporary internet sketches, it offers all kinds of useful advice on creating comic narratives for stage and screen: 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, from the UK and the USA, feature stand-ups, sketch comics, improvisers and TV comedy producers, and includeĀ Steve Kaplan, Hollywood comedy guru and author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy,Ā Will HinesĀ teacher and improviser from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre andĀ Lucy LumsdenĀ TV producer and former Controller of Comedy Commissioning for BBC.
Written by āthe ideal person to nurture new talentā (The Guardian),Ā Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & ScreenĀ includes material you won't find anywhere else and is a stimulating resource for comedy students and their teachers, with a range and a depth that will be appreciated by even the most eclectic and multi-hyphenated writers and performers.
