Delicious Dissembling: A Compleat Guide to Performing Restoration Comedy - Softcover

Ramczyk, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0325003750 ISBN 13: 9780325003757

Verlag: HEINEMANN PUB, 2002

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Restoration comedies of manners are at once bitingly true-to-life and deceptively artificial. Their style, elegance, grace, and wit provide the kind of challenge actors continue to love. Now Suzanne Ramczyk offers both directors and actors the tools they need to perform these popular plays.

Drawing on her directing experience and her years of leading workshops on Restoration theatre, Ramczyk provides:

• an historic overview of the period and the literature
• analysis of the major literary devices and features
• methods to approach vocal interpretation of often highly artificial text
• a solid grounding in period manners and movement
• specific exercises to get actors quickly and easily into the Restoration style
• detailed artwork of period costumes
• illustrations of such period necessities as bows, curtsies, the "language" of the fan, and snuff taking.

Read Ramczyk and explore the possibilities of Restoration comedy from first reading to final, polished performance.

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SUZANNE RAMCZYK teaches Acting Styles, Acting Shakespeare, Voice and Text, Movement for the Actor, and other performance courses at Bridgewater State College, where she has been a Professor of Theatre Arts for seventeen years. Her workshops on performing the Comedy of Manners

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• Verlag: HEINEMANN PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0325003750
• ISBN 13: 9780325003757
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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