Noel Coward quote...
August 8th 2011 06:39
Here's a short snippet from page 209 that comes at the end of a conversation about the way to make sure the audience gets a laugh line - and laughs. And if it doesn't, what to do about it. The speaker is Coward himself.
One can become much too self-conscious about comedy and literally worry it right out of existence with too much analysis. Only when something is a proven laugh and suddenly it isn't any longer, that is when to examine it scrupulously and try sto see what has gone wrong. Oh, it is so eminently worth it when the laugh comes back.
I wasn't particularly keen to read this book when a friend offered it to me, but the things that are written about stagecraft are as valid today as ever, and that has made it worth reading.
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