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Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage : El teatre comic en catala (1900-2016) - Gabriel Sansano

Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage

El teatre comic en catala (1900-2016)

By: Gabriel Sansano (Editor), Francis Lough (Editor), John London (Editor)

Paperback | 15 December 2022

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PRAISE FOR Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage: El teatre còmic en catala (1900-2016)

«Necessary reading [...] for anyone interested in the evolution of this art form, the correlation of language and comedy on the stage, and the creative tools of playwrights and performers for the Catalan language.»

(Natalia Server Beneto, European Journal of Humour Research, 11.2 (2023))

«El teatre còmic en catala (1900-2016) presenta un conjunto de estudios imprescindibles para conocer parte de la realidad contemporanea de la escena catalana y en catalan.»

(Guadalupe Soria Tomas, RILCE 40.2 (2024))

«Aquest llibre aporta molta llum a tots aquells que cerquen les fonts, els modes i els protagonistes de la comedia i l'humor catalans.»

(Enric Ciurans, Llengua & Literatura, 34 (2024))

«Un contributo imprescindibile per collocare nel luogo che gli spetta questo filone della produzione teatrale catalana contemporanea.»

(Veronica Orazi, Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani, 13 (2023))

«Se trata de un volumen importante, que abre preguntas y apunta nuevas vias de investigacion, e interesara a los estudiosos de la catalanistica y del teatro catalan, pero tambien a quien estudie los mecanismos del humor, el teatro popular y las vinculaciones entre comicidad y politica.»

(Adriana Nicolau Jimenez, Talia. Revista de estudios teatrales, 5 (2023))

Comedy has been a constant presence in the history of Catalan theatre, but it is rarely recognized as a separate generic identity, worthy of academic study as a whole. This volume is the first concentrated attempt to analyse Catalan theatre under the comic lens, with essays in English and Catalan. It studies comic form, performative innovation, and socio-political function. As well as providing detailed analyses of figures excluded from standard accounts, it makes a strong case for the originality of many authors, directors, and actors. This is definitely another realm in which the Catalan contribution to European culture needs to be acknowledged and appreciated. Moreover, the book provides an exceptional platform on which theatre is considered - within the same project - from several regions where Catalan is spoken: Spanish Catalonia, the Valencia region, and different towns in French Catalonia.

La hilaritat sempre ha tingut una presencia molt important en l'evolucio del teatre catala, tot i que rarament ha comptat amb un estudi i reconeixement academics. Aquest volum proposa una analisi de diverses formes d'humor de l'escena catalana, amb una seleccio d'assaigs en angles i catala d'experts de diferents universitats. S'hi examinen algunes propostes de comicitat, innovacions performatives i la projeccio sociopolitica d'aquesta jocositat. Tambe s'hi estudia l'originalitat d'un conjunt d'autors, directors i actors al marge de l'humor politicament correcte. Sens dubte, un altre ambit, el de riure, en el qual cal reconeixer i posar en valor la contribucio catalana a la cultura europea. El llibre constitueix un cas rar on es considera el teatre -dins d'un mateix projecte- de diversos espais geografics on es parla catala: Catalunya (sobretot Barcelona), el Pais Valencia i diferents pobles del Rossello.

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