Directing a Play

Directing a Play

Author: Michael McCaffery

Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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This highly successful series has been revised and reprinted in new, exciting covers. The five titles work together to create all you need to know about how to present a production. Each expertly written book contains many creative ideas as well as essential information. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.


Directions for Directing

Directions for Directing

Author: Avra Sidiropoulou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1351839284

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Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method lays out contemporary concepts of directing practice and examines specific techniques of approaching scripts, actors, and the stage. Addressed to both young and experienced directors but also to the broader community of theatre practitioners, scholars, and dedicated theatre goers, the book sheds light on the director’s multiplicity of roles throughout the life of a play – from the moment of its conception to opening night – and explores the director’s processes of inspiration, interpretation, communication, and leadership. From organizing auditions and making casting choices to decoding complex dramaturgical texts and motivating actors, Directions for Directing offers practical advice and features detailed workbook sections on how to navigate such a fascinating discipline. A companion website explores the work of international practitioners of different backgrounds who operate within various institutions, companies, and budgets, providing readers with a wide range of perspectives and methodologies.


Play Directing

Play Directing

Author: Francis Hodge

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1317351029

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Play Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play, to working with actors and designers to bring the production to life. The authors emphasize that the role of the director as an artist-leader collaborating with actors and designers who look to the director for partnership in achieving their fullest, most creative expressions. The text emphasizes how the study of directing provides an intensive look at the structure of plays and acting, and of the process of design of scenery, costume, lighting, and sound that together make a produced play.


Directing Theater 101

Directing Theater 101

Author: Wilma Marcus Chandler

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2017-08-17

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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What are the practical and creative elements for becoming a director? How do you get started? What is the best way for actors, designers, and crew to work with directors? This guide provides regional theater companies and new directors with the knowledge and tools they need to produce successful shows. Drawing on years of experience directing and producing plays, Wilma Marcus Chandler covers such topics as: * How to read and analyze a script and really understand it * How to visualize your show * How to get started, researching and thinking about concept, music, lights, sound, costumes * How to hold auditions * How to talk to your case and crew--and how to listen * How to stage a play, using blocking, body movement, stage business, exits and entrances * How to prepare a production, including rehearsal techniques, time lines, budgets, royalties, publicity * How to prepare a career in directing


Directing Plays

Directing Plays

Author: Don Taylor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1136789952

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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Direction

Direction

Author: Simon Shepherd

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1137292555

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Is directing an art? Do directors need to be trained? What do directors actually do? These questions and more are answered in this accessibly written survey of the art of theatre direction. Its broad scope ranges across the theatres of both America and Europe, looking at practices from Stanislavski up to the present day.


Drama and Theatre Studies

Drama and Theatre Studies

Author: Sally Mackey

Publisher: Nelson Thornes

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780748751686

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Revised and expanded edition for use with all Drama and Theatre Studies A & AS specifications.


Children's Play and Development

Children's Play and Development

Author: Ivy Schousboe

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9400765797

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This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of the phenomenon of play within the framework of cultural historical theory. Empirical studies cover a wide range of institutional settings: preschool, school, home, leisure time, and in various social relations (with peers, professionals and parents) in different parts of the world (Europe, Australia, South America and North America). Common to all chapters is a goal of throwing new light on the phenomenon of playing within a theoretical framework of cultural-historical theory. Play as a cultural, collective, social, personal, pedagogical and contextual activity is addressed with reference to central concepts in relation to development and learning. Concepts and phenomena related to ZPD, the imaginary situation, rules, language play, collective imagining, spheres of realities of play, virtual realities, social identity and pedagogical environments are presented and discussed in order to bring the cultural-historical theoretical approach into play with contemporary historical issues. Essential as a must read to any scholar and student engaged with understanding play in relation to human development, cultural historical theory and early childhood education.


Collaborative Stage Directing

Collaborative Stage Directing

Author: Jean Burgess

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 042966270X

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Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment focuses on the director's collaboration with actors and the creative team, and the importance of communication and leadership skills to create and manage a healthy working environment. Speaking directly to the student, this compact resource walks the aspiring director through basic principles of group dynamics, active listening, open-ended questioning, brainstorming, and motivational leadership, supported by examples and case studies offered by current professional and academic directors. With a focus on preparing the student director for resume-building opportunities beyond the studio lab, Collaborative Stage Directing challenges readers with reflective activities, a series of guiding questions to apply to three short plays, and an extensive checklist to assist them with independent directing projects. As an easy-to-use resource, Collaborative Stage Directing works as a supplement to a classic directing text or as a stand-alone guide.