Writing and Staging Funny Plays (Writing and Staging Plays)

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What makes people laugh? How can you write a funny play? How can you turn a hilarious script into a side-splitting production?

Charlotte Guillain worked as a bookseller, an English teacher and an editor before becoming an author. She has written more than 100 books, both fiction and non-fiction. She always wanted to be a writer and her top tip is to read as much as you can.

The Writing and Staging Plays series gives readers pro tips about mounting productions that will appeal to those behind and in front of the curtain. Producing funny plays might be a particular challenge for young people; as they say, dying is easy; comedy is hard. This book makes things less difficult by giving solid advice about choosing material and writing a script (with short samples included), and supplies advice for actors, directors, and crew, as well as offering ideas for publicizing. . . .The colorful, attractive format, with its velvet curtain border, invites readers to settle in and enjoy the show.-- "Booklist"