دانلود کتاب A Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up

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Title Page\nCopyright Page\nCONTENTS\nNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS\n Directors, academics and coaches who work with stand-ups\n People that I have directed and coached\n Other voices\nPREFACE\nFOREWORD\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nACT 1 On-stage identity/off-stage process\n Chapter 1 Directing the persona: The comedic self\n The director in the shadows\n The comedic persona\n Directing an act’s persona\n Archetypes\n Attitudes\n Likeability\n Shadow\n Struggle\n Status\n Self-awareness\n The act’s look\n Chapter 2 Where comic ideas come from (and how to cultivate them)\n What do you love?\n Stand-up levels\n Chapter 3 How directors and stand-ups work together\n Stand-up dramaturgy\n Material\n Structure\n Previews and performances\n Beyond the Fringe\n A change of direction\n Stand-up versus theatre directing\nACT 2 Writing and performing stand-up\n Chapter 4 The interplay between writing and performance\n Stand-up writing and improvisation\n Responding to the live environment\n Stand-up writing and spontaneous speech\n Reading the room\n Keeping material alive\n Chapter 5 Writing jokes: Afterthoughts and beforethoughts\n Callbacks\n Misdirection\n Rule of three\n Found set-ups and afterthoughts\n Found payoffs and beforethoughts\n Chapter 6 Re-writing jokes: To fix them, improve them and suit the teller\n Fixing a joke\n Re-writing a joke\n Making a joke suit you\n Chapter 7 It takes two: Incongruity, transpositions, analogies, personification and bathos\n Incongruity\n Transpositions\n Bathos\n Analogies\n Personification\n Chapter 8 Developing and structuring stories and routines\n Turning true stories into stand-up\n Structuring a story or routine\n Chapter 9 Set-up/payoff in stories and routines\n Voices A and B\n Set-up/payoff in a story\n Chapter 10 Directing the stand-up performance\n Timing\n TED talks\n Act-outs\n Directing stand-up like a play\nACT 3 Full-length shows and theatre\n Chapter 11 Developing and structuring full-length shows\n The director as dramaturg\n Structuring shows\n The three-act structure and plot lines\n Chronology\n Endings\n Chapter 12 Vulnerability and pain in stand-up shows\n Getting personal\n Finding the funny in the pain\n Structuring painful revelations\n Performing challenging material\n Chapter 13 Case study: The Naked Racist\n Chapter 14 Stand-ups do theatre\n Chapter 15 Theatre makers influenced by stand-up\n Stand-up influence in theatre\nNOTES\nINDEX