PRAISE FOR Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage: El teatre còmic en català (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.»
(Natàlia Server Benetó, European Journal of Humour Research, 11.2 (2023))
«El teatre còmic en català (1900-2016) presenta un conjunto de estudios imprescindibles para conocer parte de la realidad contemporánea de la escena catalana y en catalán.»
(Guadalupe Soria Tomás, RILCE 40.2 (2024))
«Aquest llibre aporta molta llum a tots aquells que cerquen les fonts, els modes i els protagonistes de la comèdia 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 vías de investigación, e interesará a los estudiosos de la catalanística y del teatro catalán, pero también a quien estudie los mecanismos del humor, el teatro popular y las vinculaciones entre comicidad y política.»
(Adriana Nicolau Jiménez, Talía. 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 actor
