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Hearsing...?

Mon, 16 June 2003, 09:29 am
crgwllms6 posts in thread
In my recent conversation with Tomas, I equated "the process" as being what we call "rehearsal"... and now I want someone to explain this word 'rehearse'..?

I understand the "re" prefix, as in we repeat things and re-do them and revise them....but what is it we're re-doing? Is the initial walk through of a play called a 'hearse'?

Is that anything to do with 'corpsing'?



....spiralling down my own rabbit hole of this crazy language we try to communicate in...

Craig

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Re: Hearse with a corpse

Sun, 29 June 2003, 01:02 pm
michelle wrote:
>
> you mentioned 'corpsing' and i couldn't tell if you knew what
> it meant? but even if you did i was very excited about
> contributing to the conversation so i want to explain my
> understanding of 'corpsing' (something I am quite well
> rehearsed at...) for anyone who was unsure.
>
> well, there was this play where an actor had to lie on the
> stage as a 'corpse' and she/he started laughing! and thus we
> have 'corpsing', the actor's tendency to laugh at a totally
> inappropriate moment (which = me!).


Hi Michelle

I was just really drawing artificial connections between the word "hearse" (from 're-hearse') and "to corpse"... kinda funny and interesting.

I've also heard that "corpsing" was derived from the fact that when a performer cracks up and laughs inappropriately, it "kills" the scene ...but the dead body laughing is the obvious explanation and probably makes the most sense.

Cheers,
Craig

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