The Craft of Play Directing
Author | : Curtis Canfield |
Publisher | : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Curtis Canfield |
Publisher | : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul B. Crook |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317364554 |
The formation and communication of vision is one of the primary responsibilities of a director, before ever getting to the nuts and bolts of the process. The Art and Practice of Directing for Theatre helps the young director learn how to discover, harness, and meld the two. Providing both a practical and theoretical foundation for directors, this book explores how to craft an artistic vision for a production, and sparks inspiration in directors to put their learning into practice. This book includes: Guidance through day-to-day aspects of directing, including a director’s skillset and tools, script analysis, and rehearsal structure. Advice on collaborating with production teams and actors, building communication skills and tools, and integrating digital media into these practices. Discussion questions and practical worksheets covering script analysis, blocking, and planning rehearsals, with downloadable versions on a companion website.
Author | : Mary B. Robinson |
Publisher | : Smith & Kraus Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Acting |
ISBN | : 9781575257846 |
"Directing Plays, Directing People is a vivid, engagiing [sic], personal journey through the process of making theater, written from a director's perspective"--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Katie Mitchell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2008-08-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134138083 |
Written by one of the UK’s most respected working directors, this book is a practical guide to directing in theatre and includes specific advice on every aspect of working with actors, designers, and the text.
Author | : David Stevens |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2013-03-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1300888482 |
Theatre is an interpretive art based upon a director's emotional reaction to reading a play and imagining a production of that play. Before the audience experiences the production, the director must go through a process, part art and part craft, to create it. This book is intended to introduce undergraduate students with a solid theatre background to that process. Stevens includes chapters covering theatre and art, the interpretation of the script, composition and movement, working with actors, and matters of style. Each chapter contains exercises in order for students to consolidate what they have learned. The complete text of John Millington Synge's "Riders to the Sea" is included as an example and study text, and Stevens relates many examples from his own rich directing background. Twenty production photos, two sample floor plans, and numerous diagrams round out the text. The study of directing is a life-long project, and in this book Stevens provides a basis for that study.
Author | : Elia Kazan |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-01-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0307277046 |
Elia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a testament to his profound impact on the art of directing. This remarkable book, drawn from his notebooks, letters, interviews, and autobiography, reveals Kazan’s method: how he uncovered the “spine,” or core, of each script; how he analyzed each piece in terms of his own experience; and how he determined the specifics of his production. And in the final section, “The Pleasures of Directing”—written during Kazan’s final years—he becomes a wise old pro offering advice and insight for budding artists, writers, actors, and directors.
Author | : Judith Weston Judith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781615933211 |
Directing film or television is a high-stakes occupation. It captures your full attention at every moment, calling on you to commit every resource and stretch yourself to the limit; it's the white-water rafting of entertainment jobs. But for many directors, the excitement they feel about a new project tightens into anxiety when it comes to working with actors.In the years since the original edition of Directing Actors was published, the technical side of filmmaking has become much more easily accessible. Directors tell me that dealing with actors is the last frontier--the scariest part and the part they long for--the human part, the place where connection happens.Weston's books help directors scale the heights of the actor-director dynamic, learn the joys of collaborating with actors--and become an "actor's director."
Author | : Terry John Converse |
Publisher | : Meriwether Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
The 42 exercises detailed in this comprehensive guide provide both the instructor and the student a 'user-friendly' workshop structure. The basic concepts of directing are learned progressively. This approach is totally new -- the student discovers the demands and problems of directing by actually doing it step-by-step. The student's own directing style emerges with each exercise.
Author | : Jim Patterson |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1478626860 |
Flexible and concise, Stage Directing details the seven steps that make up the directing process: selecting a work, analyzing and researching the playscript, conceiving the production, casting, beginning rehearsals, polishing rehearsals, and giving and receiving criticism. Each step is highlighted with valuable directing tips, as well as examples from modern and contemporary playscripts and productions. Exercises, objectives, and key terms put directing precepts to a practical test, revealing what is significant about each phase of the process. Over eighty charts, graphs, and photographs unite to exemplify the text. With a fresh voice and an engaging writing style, Patterson provides insightful questions, suggestions, and illustrations that define and invoke contemplation about the role of the director. Three original short plays provide the opportunity for hands-on analysis and the application of practical concepts. In a final essay, Patterson highlights the function and growing artistry of the director in the modern and postmodern theatre by concisely examining the history of the director.
Author | : William Ball |
Publisher | : New York : Drama Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
"William Ball, founder and general director of the acclaimed American Conservatory Theatre, engages his audience in a wide-ranging discussion of the director's process - from first reading through opening night. Mr. Ball offers a candid, personal account of his method of working - including the choice of a play's essential elements, preproduction homework, casting, and rehearsal techniques"--Cover.