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Beginner's Guide to Directing Theatre by Robert Marsden (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101350370517
ISBN-139781350370517
eBay Product ID (ePID)6070943634
Product Key Features
Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameBeginner's Guide to Directing Theatre
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTheater / General, Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography
Publication Year2025
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaPerforming Arts
AuthorRobert Marsden
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceElementary/High School
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Draws together a multitude of insights on contemporary directing - approaches, methods and terminology - into a cohesive, enjoyable whole. The reassuring and friendly tone will facilitate confidence in emerging and more established directors to go forth and do their best work. Interviews with highly successful directors demonstrate links and shared approaches." -- Jillian Wallis, Senior Lecturer in Drama, University of Greenwich, UK, Draws together a multitude of insights on contemporary directing - approaches, methods and terminology - into a cohesive, enjoyable whole. The reassuring and friendly tone will facilitate confidence in emerging and more established directors to go forth and do their best work. Interviews with highly successful directors demonstrate links and shared approaches.
Dewey Decimal792.0233
Table Of ContentPART ONE: Introduction to directing - What is directing? - How this book is set out - The role of the director: what is directing? - The rise of the director - Directing without the director - Creativity, breakthroughs and building blocks - Rehearsal and production analyses PART TWO: Stages of directing - Stage One: Choosing and establishing - Stage Two: Creating and forming - Stage Three: Building and Encouraging - Stage Four: Shaping and layering - the final stages - Stage Five: Delivering and entrusting PART THREE: Interviews with leading theatre directors - Tamara Harvey - Holly Race Roughan - Josie Rourke - Roy Alexander Weise References
SynopsisAn accessible guide to the theatre directing process of text-based theatre, from the choice of the play through to an encounter with an audience. Moving from how to choose a play to the opening night, A Beginner's Guide to Directing Theatre takes the reader, via a step-by-step approach, through various techniques, practitioners, methodologies and exercises that could be applied to text-based theatre. Through doing so, the reader comes to understand: - The differences between directing (the approach) and the director (the role), how that crosses over and ways to navigate this - A range of practices, methodologies and techniques for the differing and diverse styles, genres, playwrights and movements. i.e. the 'what' of directing - How to create inclusive, safe and diverse practices of casting and rehearsal methods By not providing one single methodology, but introducing readers to various methods, the author garners an understanding of how different plays, genres, styles and movements require their own approaches to reach opening night. Whilst not concentrating on devised or non-text based theatre, the book makes explicit how devising, experiential and improvisatory techniques can be embraced to inform the types of methodologies a director may embrace whilst approaching text-based work. From here, readers will be able to know which practitioners and directing methodologies they may wish to employ and will understand where to head next.
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