{"product_id":"9781350035522","title":"A Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Chris Head\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStand-up: it's the ultimate solo art form. Yet, behind the scenes, you will increasingly find the shadowy figure of a director. For comics themselves and for those who support them, this is the first book to give the director's perspective on creating and performing stand-up comedy. Drawing on his own experience of directing stand-up alongside speaking to comedians and their directors, Chris Head produces a revealing perspective on the creative process, comic persona, writing stand-up, structuring material and delivering a performance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDirectors interviewed include Logan Murray, John Gordillo and Simon McBurney, who between them have directed Eddie Izzard, Michael McIntyre, Milton Jones, Lenny Henry and French \u0026amp; Saunders. With a foreword by BBC arts editor Will Gompertz and contributions from many other interviewees including Oliver Double (author of \u003ci\u003eGetting the Joke\u003c\/i\u003e), this is the only book that goes all the way from one-liners to theatre via comedy club sets and full-length shows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for stand-ups from newbies to pros, students of comedy, academics studying and teaching stand-up and for directors themselves, \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDirector's Guide to the Art of Stand-up\u003c\/i\u003e offers hundreds of inspiring practical insights and shows how creating the comedian's highly personal, individual act can be a deeply collaborative process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Head’s style is refreshingly breezy and simultaneously substantial. He offers practical insights: for example, audiences do not laugh at material, they laugh with or at the performer who discovers a compelling comedic self. In this remarkable manual, Head demonstrates what Horace Walpole once observed, namely that life is a comedy to those who think. And Head helps each comedic persona think.” - \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350035522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40675849994446,"sku":"9781350035522","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_7944e2c3-f64d-441d-85df-ad70d62ec9c0.jpg?v=1639974063","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350035522","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}