Stage Directing
Published on 2. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-205-38963-6 (ISBN)
Description
Written for the introductory directing course, Stage Directing is organized around the six basic steps in the process that all successful directors use: selecting the playscript, analyzing and researching the play, conceiving the production, casting, rehearsing, and finally giving and receiving criticism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-38963-6 (9780205389636)
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Content
Preface.
THE DIRECTOR AT WORK.
Step One: Selecting the Playscript.
Step Two: Analyzing and Researching the Playscript.
A. Structure.
B. Acts, Units, and Beats.
C. Character.
D. Meaning.
Step Three: Conceiving the Production.
A. The World of the Play.
B. What the Audience Hears.
C. Helping the Audience to See: The Ground Plan.
Step Four: Casting the Production: The Ideal and the Real.
Step Five: Rehearsing the Production: Staging, Shaping Polishing.
A. Stage Basics.
B. What the Audience Sees: Composing the Action.
C. What the Audience Sees: Picturing the Action.
D. Actors Must Learn Lines So Directors Can Shape the Action.
E. Intensifying the Action: The Actor.
F. Polishing.
Step Six: Giving and Receiving Criticism.
THINKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD.
Appendix One: "Mae and Her Stories" by David DeWitt.
Appendix Two: "Cha-Cha-Cha" by Garth Wingfield.
THE DIRECTOR AT WORK.
Step One: Selecting the Playscript.
Step Two: Analyzing and Researching the Playscript.
A. Structure.
B. Acts, Units, and Beats.
C. Character.
D. Meaning.
Step Three: Conceiving the Production.
A. The World of the Play.
B. What the Audience Hears.
C. Helping the Audience to See: The Ground Plan.
Step Four: Casting the Production: The Ideal and the Real.
Step Five: Rehearsing the Production: Staging, Shaping Polishing.
A. Stage Basics.
B. What the Audience Sees: Composing the Action.
C. What the Audience Sees: Picturing the Action.
D. Actors Must Learn Lines So Directors Can Shape the Action.
E. Intensifying the Action: The Actor.
F. Polishing.
Step Six: Giving and Receiving Criticism.
THINKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD.
Appendix One: "Mae and Her Stories" by David DeWitt.
Appendix Two: "Cha-Cha-Cha" by Garth Wingfield.