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 ...

The reason for him corpsing has got to be one of the most understandable of all. His co-star was a pug named Mushu. As some of the most adorable dogs on the planet (and other galaxies), pugs are also ...

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 ...

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 ...