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Ok, the first thing we have to do, is find our material, and remember, we're looking
for funny stuff. Well, how do you find material? There's lots of ways you can find material.
First, ask around. If you know people that are in theater, maybe you have a drama teacher
or a speech teacher, or you know a drama person or a speech person, ask them. What do you
think would be a good play or plays for me to take a look at, because I'm going to be
doing a humorous interpretation? The internet is a great resource. You might just type in
humorous interpretation, or humorous plays, or comedy plays, and it can give you a listing,
or sometimes, they even have examples of plays on the internet, that you might take a look
at, that might be funny. Catalogs are a really good resource, if you look at play companies,
and their catalogs. They usually have all the plays divided up by category, like maybe
all the comedies are together. Sometimes they break it down, even so far as comedies for
women, comedies for two women, comedies for five men, comedies for ten men, so forth and
so on, and they usually give a really brief description about the play, so you can kind
of read that description, and see if that play might work for you. Then, the library
of course, is a wonderful resource. They have all kinds of indexes you can look up, comedy
plays, comedy plays for women, comedy plays for men, comedy plays from the twentieth century,
lots of information, and they will also have lots of plays, that you could just maybe sit
down, and take a glance through, and read a little bit of it. Read information about
it. What does it say on the back cover, and see if it might work for you, for material
for your humorous interp.