Writing and Staging : Funny Plays

• How can you write a funny play?
  
• How can you turn a hilarious script into a sidesplitting production?
  
• What different types of comedy work on stage?
  

Read this book to find out the answers to these questions and more. Each title in the Writing and Staging Plays series explains how to create different types of plays by following sample scripts through the writing and staging process. In Writing and Staging Funny Plays, find out how to write a hilarious play, from using slapstick to verbal humour, such as puns. Discover how practical exercises such as improvisation can help make characters even funnier. Learn about how some notable examples of plays and their productions have got maximum laughs from a playscript.

Author:
Charlotte Guillain has been writing fiction and non-fiction for children for ten vears. She enjoyed taking part in staging plays, both on and oft stage, when she was younger.