Download or read book Directing in Musical Theatre written by Joe Deer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide, from the author of Acting in Musical Theatre, will equip aspiring directors with all of the skills that they will need in order to guide a production from beginning to end. From the very first conception and collaborations with crew and cast, through rehearsals and technical production all the way to the final performance, Joe Deer covers the full range. Deer’s accessible and compellingly practical approach uses proven, repeatable methods for addressing all aspects of a production. The focus at every stage is on working with others, using insights from experienced, successful directors to tackle common problems and devise solutions. Each section uses the same structure, to stimulate creative thinking: Timetables: detailed instructions on what to do and when, to provide a flexible organization template Prompts and Investigations: addressing conceptual questions about style, characterization and design Skills Workshops: Exercises and ‘how-to’ guides to essential skills Essential Forms and Formats: Including staging notation, script annotation and rehearsal checklists Case Studies: Well-known productions show how to apply each chapter’s ideas Directing in Musical Theatre not only provides all of the essential skills, but explains when and how to put them to use; how to think like a director.
Download or read book Directors on Directing written by Helen Krich Chinoy and published by Allegro Editions. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that directors such as Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola are celebrated along-side movie stars, it is hard to imagine that little more than a century ago the director was a nameless, faceless entity-an overseer of workflow in the shuffle of shadows offstage. In surveying the pioneers who transformed theater into the dynamic art form it is today, Directors on Directing presents a timeless collection of writings offering insight into what it means to direct and how to better appreciate theatrical performances.
Download or read book Directing Postmodern Theater written by Jon Whitmore and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to theatrical directing using the concepts and terminology of semiotic theory
Download or read book Directing Theater 101 written by Wilma Marcus Chandler and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Fight Directing for the Theatre written by J. Allen Suddeth and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by professional fight director J. Allen Suddeth, all the aspects of brawn, brawl, and broadswords are covered.
Download or read book Directing Beckett written by Lois Oppenheim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with and essays by twenty-two prominent directors of Samuel Beckett's work
Download or read book Directing in the Theatre written by J. Robert Wills and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition offers an expanded array of materials, organized into cases and shorter 'briefs, ' for use in the study of directing. There are new cases covering issues of censorship, non-traditional casting, theater safety, and ethics among others. The corresponding Instructor's Manual is available free upon request
Download or read book Directing a Handbook for Emerging Theatre Directors written by Rob Swain and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theatre director is one of the most critical roles in a successful drama company, yet there are no formal qualifications required for entry into this profession. This practical guide for emerging theatre directors answers all the key questions from the very beginning of your career to key stages as you establish your credentials and get professionally recognized. It analyzes the director's role through relationships with the actors, author, designer, production manager and creative teams and provides vital advice for "on-the-job" situations where professional experience is invaluable. The book also provides an overview of the many approaches to acting methodology without focusing on any in particular to allow the director to develop their own unique methods of working with any actor's style. Each chapter includes these key features: * Introduces important theories, identifies practitioners and provides key reading to provide an overview of historic and current practice. * Interviews with leading practitioners and emerging directors. * Suggested exercises to develop the director's own approach and practical skills.
Download or read book On Directing written by Harold Clurman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Collier Books, 1972.
Download or read book Upstaging Big Daddy written by Ellen Donkin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges established notions of the director's craft and disrupts conventional interpretations of "the canon"
Download or read book Mis directing the Play written by Terry McCabe and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry McCabe, himself an accomplished stage director and teacher of theatre arts, here attacks what he calls the growing decadence that plagues contemporary stage directing. He argues for a radical reorganization of the director’s view of his role. It has become an article of faith in the theatre, Mr. McCabe observes, that a play is about what the director chooses to have it be about. But what right does a director have to treat a play as a found object, to be reshaped to express the director’s concerns? None whatsoever, Mr. McCabe replies. He examines anecdotally a range of work by different directors by way of offering a substantial critique of today’s leading theory of stage directing, and he offers an alternate approach. He challenges the notion that a play is the director’s vehicle for self-expression, arguing that the idea of the director as centerpiece of the theatre tends to distort plays and oppress actors. He explores what it means to direct a play when directing is properly understood as a process of self-effacement. Mis-directing the Play examines the role of the director as collaborator with actors, designers, dramaturges, and playwrights. Throughout, the book’s focus is on shedding the counterproductive myth of the director as creative auteur and urging in its place a return to first principles: the idea of the director as the interpretive artist in charge of putting the playwright’s play onstage.
Download or read book Notes on Directing written by Frank Hauser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible edition of a classic guide to film and theater directing offers insight into the craft's unique challenges from managing personalities and anticipating problems to working with a script and the key elements of staging, in a primer that also features life lessons gleaned by the co-authors throughout their careers. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Download or read book Stage Directing written by Jim Patterson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Theatre for Children written by David Wood and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading children's dramatists provides a practical handbook of the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences of children. A marvelous contribution to the world of Youth Theater...a must. —Robyn Flatt, Dallas Children's Theater. He has often been called the National Playwright for Children and he deserves it. —Cameron Mackintosh
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing written by Christopher Innes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director was fundamental to the development of modern theatre. This Introduction explores the emergence of the director's artistic force.
Download or read book Mainly on Directing written by Arthur Laurents and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From playwright, screenwriter, and director Laurents comes a mesmerizing book about theater, art and the artist, the insider and the outsider--and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage: "Gypsy" and "West Side Story."
Download or read book Directing Shakespeare in America written by Charles Ney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first substantive study of directing Shakespeare in the USA, Charles Ney compares and contrasts directors working at major companies across the country. Because of the complexities of directing Shakespeare for audiences today, a director's methods, values and biases are more readily perceptible in their work on Shakespeare than in more contemporary work. Directors disclose their interpretation of the text, their management of the various stages of production, how they go about supervising rehearsals and share tactics. This book will be useful to students wanting to develop skills, practitioners who want to learn from what other directors are doing, and scholars and students studying production practice and performance.
