Sujets :
Art clownesque
Écriture

Dépouillement du document :
PART ONE - From experience to theory
1 - Theatre and me
2 - Some preliminary clarifications
- First : what is theatre ?
- Second : what is a clown ?
- Third : the nature of the comic
- Fourth : the sense of humour
- Fifth : Laughter
3 - Dramatic structure
4 - Clown dramaturgy
- Plot
- Acts, scenes and situations
- The unities
- Comic effects
- Gag
- The blow-off
- Running gag
- Climax
- Anticlimax
- Incident
- Triggering incident
- Harmony
- Suspense
- Deus-ex-machina
- Dramatic irony
- Diffused dramatic irony
- Dramatic promise
- Delayed reaction
- Disproportionate reaction
- Tempo and rhythm
- Suspension of disbelief
- Ellipsis
- Analepsis
- Identification
- MacGuffin
- Three steps
- Use everything twice
- Crescendo

PART TWO - From theory to practice
1 - Sketch or show?
2 - Constructing a clown sketch or show
- Exposition
- Complication
- Resolution
- Trying it with an audience
3 - Writing a clown show

PART THREE - From practice to experience
1 - Superman
- Structural analysis
2 - Deconstructing Shakespeare
- Problems with the adaptation
- Script extract
- Structural analisys
3 - On Horatians and Curiatians
- Background of the adaptation
- Script extract 1
- Script extract 2
- Structural analisys
Final reflections

Résumé :
This book is the fruit of four decades of experience during which Gené has worked as a teacher, actor, director and playwright; roles which for him are inseparable from each other. Alongside his experience, he has spent years reflecting upon and studying his art, which has in turn enabled him to share his experiences in a multitude of books, conferences and master classes.

This particular book is rich in analytical rigor, which is complemented by examples from dramatic texts and classic films which show how the concepts he talks about—gags, suspense, incidents, deus ex machina, timing, rhythm, etc.—work on stage. This makes Clown Dramaturgy a very useful book for those who want to delve into the theatrical dramaturgy and / or create numbers or clown shows.

As an epilogue, Gené illustrates specific aspects of clown dramaturgy using three of his own productions: “Superman”, “Deconstructing Shakespeare” and “On Horatians y Curiations”

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

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