...Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 JOEL SCHECHTER “Laughter is no laughing matter. . . . Only equals may laugh. If inferiors...

...Bim; Bom; Elise Thoron, translated by Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 brought his whip down upon the record with force. . . . The damaged record squeaked and became silent. And the silence THE LAUGH spread down the ranks extinguishing the laughter. . . His violence ultimately allows...

... [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] © 2023 by individual authors 2023 The 1491s Between Two Knees, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, ct, 2022. Photo: T. Charles Erickson Laughing at the Absurdity of Hor r ibl e Things A Conversation...

...Rachel Shteir Once upon a time, a partridge went hunting in a field, and spied an ant, which she seized in her beak by one of its legs. The ant laughed and said, you are a skillful hunter, partridge, yet it is a pity you cannot laugh as I do! Whereupon the partridge opened her beak to laugh...

... is in the U.S., and the audience laughs nervously. For in the age af multinationals, worldwide computer networks and rampaging automation, auto and steel workers face the same kind of crises as Edgar and Hermann.” Copyright © THEATER 1984 1984 Kroetz in San Francisco: Oskar...

... just astonishes J & S: But not for keeps. me. (People laugh and elbow each other.) Now would someone give me Treas: The King will rule, those five apples...

... that junkies have no Junkie: Do you mind, lady? interest in sex? Mrs. Pismire: Sorry. (She slams the door, Patsy: You don’t have to be interested in laughs insanely and hurtles back to the sex to be a pervert. (She hurtles into the LA DIES...

... displayin' it for a Got a watch or something you don't profit. (Laughs.) know about? (grins) Clock out there? "How am I going to make a tour dead 31 And that's not a bad question, I think Maybe they like hearin' you scream. you should bequeath it. Must be some...

... with the mo-mo-monies. Everyone insults his dad. He, livid, gapes, gawks, insults his dad. Slaps the great paintings. Dies laughing hysterically. No one looks. Meanwhile the maiden takes a bath in the cemetery pool. No one looks. She steps out wearing...

... never to imitate anyone else, but very wet) battle. stage, both Carlo and Alberto laughed. to let the expressions, the movements, Act lbobegan with a wordless sketch “Oh, yes.” replied Carlo. “It’s much fun- the comedy, come from inside them. entitled “The Day After.” Carlo...

... to go on. Summa summarum: if there is a thing there is no shortage of right now; unlike food or semiconductors, it s human-­derived horrors and the suffering that goes with them. No laughing matter. And from this state of perpetual crisis and catastrophe, a borderline-o­ffensive idea came up: would...

.... It doesn’t grapple with all of laughs. Michael Feingold, in the Village Voice, the decade’s problems, just AIDS, but demand- expressed “surprise that a wit of Rudnick’s ing more than one catastrophe per play struck playfulness wants to tread the emotionally...

... Chinese and English words. The (laughing wildly) music combines American marching Translate you into American like a Latin band with Chinese. People are running prayer-or a glass of beer! back and forthThe incredible noise and frenzy dissipates until...

...! both Chinese and English words. The (laughing wi Idly) music combines American marching Translate you into American like a Latin band with Chinese. People are running prayer-or a glass of beer! back and forth. . .The incredible noise and frenzy...

.... If poetry is what’s lost in translation, then laugh may simply be a matter of his self-assigned comedy must be what’s lost in explanation. Tre- role as explicator, but his lessons, too, seem vor Griffiths’Cornedicrns seeks to explain comedy, flawed by an awkward seriousness. The first act...

... in jail. He gives a very graphic description and Sam and Willie laugh. Was that laugh something you and Danny Glover invented, or was it a directorial decision. And what are you laughing about? Athol didn’t tell us to laugh there. But it’s funny to them. Sam and Willie have a good laugh...

... and the internationally renowned theatrical training ground, 30 DomMque Serrand and Robert Rosen in Goodbye Paradis Cancan. particularly for actors. Le Coq's approach is highly to get a laugh every thirty seconds, and it worked. physicalized, drawing on the ancient traditions of Audiences...

... CATE (stares. Then bursts out laughing;) IAN Probably the wog with the sarnies. Open it. IAN No? Fine. CATE opens the door. Because I stink? There’s no one there,just a tray of sand- wiches...

.... They laugh. smve looks at BURT. Exactly the same as the ones who are not in power. They steal and kill for petty things. They BURT Not everyone can conceive things beyond never think beyond themselves. What do you their nose. Some can’t even conceive their nose. think is the reason for cruelty...

...: FERD: Here it is, beautiful. (He gives her pocketbook (to BETTE) Mud is the dumbest white woman that has been in full sight all along.) alive. BETTE: MUD: I love you, Boo. Oh, Ferd. (laughs...