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(Applause Books). 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.
The art of acting in restoration comedy, the buoyant, often bowdy
romps which celebrated the reopening of the English theatres after
Cromwell's dour reign, is the subject of Simon Callow's bold
investigation. There is cause again to celebrate as Callow, one of
Britain's foremost actors, aims to restore the form to all its
original voluptuous vigor. Callow shows the way to attain clarity
and hilarity in some of the most delightful roles ever conceived
for the theatre.
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