Delicious Dissembling: A Compleat Guide to Performing Restoration ComedyRestoration comedies of manners are at once bitingly true-to-life and deceptively artificial. Their style, elegance, grace, and wit provide the kind of challenge actors continue to love. Now Suzanne Ramczyk offers both directors and actors the tools they need to perform these popular plays. Drawing on her directing experience and her years of leading workshops on Restoration theatre, Ramczyk provides:
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RESTORATION ENGLAND | 1 |
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Experimenting with Pitch Tempo | 74 |
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