At this time of year, you'll find plenty of actors breaking down in laughter. Irritating and unprofessional – or can it bring a production alive? On the press night of Cinderella at the Lyric ...

We Yanks have no convenient piece of slang that approximates your lovely term "corpsing". But that doesn't mean our actors don't succumb. I saw the best – or perhaps the worst – example in recent ...

Corpsing is when an actor breaks out into unscripted laughter. The term comes from the theater: The worst possible time to uncontrollably laugh would be on stage, playing a corpse. Corpsing in theater ...

It must be hard to be a comedy actor. Not only is it arguably the most difficult art form to perform (especially in front of a live studio audience, where you find out fairly quickly if you've ...

Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Stories comprises a collection of personal, lived horror stories in which the setting is Sophie White's own body. The cover of Sophie White's new novel shows the ...

Anyone who’s ever watched the DVD extras on ‘The Office’ or ‘Extras’ or anything involving Ricky Gervais actually, will know the British comic is the king of corpsing on camera. Corpsing – the act of ...

Tramp Press is moving into audiobooks, launching with Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White, read by the author. The indie, based in Ireland and Scotland, said Tramp Press Audio ...

You don't hear much about it in little theatre, simply because it's more a pro-theatre thing. Corpsing is when an actor does something on stage designed to make another actor go into paroxysms of ...