{"product_id":"a-directors-guide-to-the-art-of-standup-9781350035522","title":"A Directors Guide to the Art of Standup","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStand-up: it's the ultimate solo art form. Yet, behind the scenes, you will increasingly find the shadowy figure of a director. For comics themselves and for those who support them, this is the first book to give the director's perspective on creating and performing stand-up comedy. Drawing on his own experience of directing stand-up alongside speaking to comedians and their directors, Chris Head produces a revealing perspective on the creative process, comic persona, writing stand-up, structuring material and delivering a performance.Directors interviewed include Logan Murray, John Gordillo and Simon McBurney, who between them have directed Eddie Izzard, Michael McIntyre, Milton Jones, Lenny Henry and French \u0026amp; Saunders. With a foreword by BBC arts editor Will Gompertz and contributions from many other interviewees including Oliver Double (author of \u003ci\u003eGetting the Joke\u003c\/i\u003e), this is the only book that goes all the way from one-liners to theatre via comedy club sets and full-length show\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHead’s style is refreshingly breezy and simultaneously substantial. He offers practical insights: for example, audiences do not laugh at material, they laugh with or at the performer who discovers a compelling comedic self. In this remarkable manual, Head demonstrates what Horace Walpole once observed, namely that life is a comedy to those who think. And Head helps each comedic persona think. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eIt opened up a world that I didn’t know before and haven’t stopped exploring since. I hope this book does something similar for you -- From the foreword by Will Gompertz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor   Act 1: On Stage Identity\/Off-Stage Process   1. Directing the Persona: The Comedic Self 2. Where Comic Ideas Come From (And How to Cultivate Them) 3. How Directors \u0026amp; Stand-Ups Work Together   Act 2: Writing \u0026amp; Performing Stand-up   4. The Interplay Between Writing and Performance 5. Writing Jokes: Afterthoughts \u0026amp; Beforethoughts 6. Re-Writing Jokes: To Fix Them, Improve Them and Suit the Teller 7. It Takes Two: Incongruity, Transpositions, Analogies, Personification \u0026amp; Bathos 8. Developing and Structuring Stories \u0026amp; Routines 9. Set-up\/Payoff in Stories \u0026amp; Routines 10. Directing the Stand-up Performance   Act 3: Full Length Shows \u0026amp; Theatre   11.Developing and Structuring Full-Length Shows 12. Vulnerability and Pain in Stand-up Shows 13. Case Study: The Naked Racist 14. Stand-Ups Do Theatre 15. Theatre Makers Influenced by Stand-up   Afterword: The End","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019624546647,"sku":"9781350035522","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350035522.jpg?v=1750780819","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-directors-guide-to-the-art-of-standup-9781350035522","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}