...Ben Katchor © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000 BEN KATCHOR EXCERPTS FROM The Carbon Copy Building: A Comic Book Opera Musical theater meets the comics in The Carbon Copy Building, a revolutionary collabo• ration between comic-strip artist Ben Katchor...

...Laurence Senelick Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 THE GOOD GAY COMIC OF WEIMAR CABARET LAURENCE SENELICK eimar Berlin may have been the first...

...Evan Hill up front Cryptic Comic Carvings Evan Hill Our present moment is rife with comicality. The comedy industry is bigger, more diverse, and more lucrative than ever. The market is now driven by niche fan bases and decentralized, often participatory, mediums of comedic production. Political...

... non-narrative pieces such as The Lady Dick (1985) and Dress Suits to Hire (1987). All of Hughes's work has an undercurrent of dark comic rage. And her subject has always been relationships between women. Despite her notoriety as a “lesbian artist,” this does not necessarily mean sexual relationships...

... and Commerce sleep following a rous- ing bout of intercourse, while their raunchy and irreverent offspring (cartoons and comics) prepare to throttle them to death—a fitting backdrop to a conversation that centered on issues of free speech and censorship, high and low art, human nature, and the fierce...

... and as a result the play is anything but comic. consists largely of a series of warm-up exercises There is nothing quite so sad, after all, as a joke that the O’Shea character initiates for his pupils that needs explaining. Comedians is a very sad to prepare for their auditions. The final exercise Play...

... of tyrannies of their times. Aristophanes mocked danger. He understood that the tramp’s escapes became the dictators who corroded the democratic funnier in proportion to the severity of the threats to which principles of ancient Athens. Harlequin’s comic reversals of he was subjected...

... was amazement enough the prize should go to a comic writer - let alone one who is also a performer. But it was simply beyond belief that it should be settled on the brow of a champion of the battered and bloodied left. Never mind that this comic s a genius, the writer of several of the most sustained passages...

... - de Curtis and enjoying immense popularity thanks to his powers of - along with various other titles of nobility. ?b these he comic acting, his repartee and improvisations, together with added, after a long series of courtcases which greatly amused his extraordinaryfacial expressions and body...

... of driginal plays and new translations of work of the choice of material than proficiency in written in this century. Angela Paton is Artistic presentation. It succeeded in those -Director and Robert W. Goldsby is Executive segments where the full comic richness of Direct o r...

... refashioned to Nestroy’s troupe and - Hans Weigl, NESTROY fit JOHANN his own comic sensibility. It was easy to dismiss these reworkings...

... of blue costume. 86 topical comedy that he would develop into a more sophisticated style as he matured. The fledgling animal trainer was learning how to banter in improvised comic dialog with his audience, how to keep them in- terested by focusing on issues of immediate concern...

... cover image—a lone, bereft figure surrounded by decaying monuments of the comic imagination, leaden and still, aban- doned by their narratives—serves as an epilogue to Drawn to Death, the new comic book opera he created with composer Phillip Johnston and director Jean Randich. In the song...

... in a bizarre comic dance. There were no table manners they would not be granted themselves. other animal acts. Trained bears, full-size elephants, and Vladimir Durov was not the entertainer of children that Cossack horses stayed in Moscow, leaving American animal the theater named after him has...

..., the "apartheid of by Laurence Senelick (University of New fall of a great comic performer, who high theatre and low theatre" in Imperial England Press, 1988). survived all sorts of assaults onstage, but Russia involved a basic mistrust...

... and Tkller offer a cau- tionary entertainment that reveals the extent of our national gullibility. Challenging the audience to ap- proach their material with an attitude of comic skepticism, Penn and Teller open their stage show with a hoax: a zany piece of sadomasochistic escape artistry...

... The Age and Stage of George L. Fox episodes, Irwin's play conveys the rise and because, Kelly shows, the "apartheid of by Laurence Senelick (University of New fall of a great comic performer, who high theatre and low theatre" in Imperial England Press, 1988...

...- assaulted the conventions, contrivances and pretensions of a table candidate for comic deflation. It was Lardner who wrote 119 Marc...

...• EURIPIDES: tion, mercilessly prodded on by his son-in-law EURIPIDES. What thou shalt hear, forthwith. MNESILOCHOS wears the grotesque comic mask of an old man, white of hair and beard: an old...

... citizens), this tendency never penetrated beyond the court theater (which the Emperor Joseph I1 declared a German National Theater in 1776); and in the suburbs of Vienna the theater of broad comic improvisation continued to flourish. This Viennese folk theater, of which Ferdinand...