Direction & Production

A guide to the dramaturgical processes that can most effectively bring historical material to the stage.Aimed at postgraduate dramaturgy students, scholars and professional dramaturgs.Unique in offering a sustained focus on adapting historical events...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479306930Author CC BeechumFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide. Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its...

Supporting Staged Intimacy: A Practical Guide for Theatre Creatives, Managers, and Crew examines the relationship between staged intimacy, intimacy direction, and those supporting the process during pre-production, rehearsal, and performance. First,...

Vivid tales and anecdotes about the theatre told by John D. Mitchell, founder of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts.Book InformationISBN 9781882763030Author John D. MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Fordham University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403961709Author Allain PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080712Author John AhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 505g

From a first-hand account of working with Jerzy Grotowski to an analysis of the art of writing for the stage; from the hazards of touring in the Emirates to the dramas of touring behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s; from an analysis of the role of the...

-Provides an overview of the role and processes of a director, written in an accessible and engaging format for the community theatre enthusiast. -Provides “how-to” tips and detailed information as to how one must prepare before rehearsals even begin for...

This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exemplify the range of ways that directors address dramatic material, theatrical space and their audiences. Their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838214610Author Charles MarowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press

Regarded by Augusto Boal as the international icon of his vision, Jana Sanskriti are the leading practitioners of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre in India and the East. The group has worked continuously with rural communities in West Bengal...

This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson's unconventional rehearsal methodology. Neilson's notably collaborative rehearsal process affords an unusual amount of creative input to the actors he works with and has garnered much...

This book is an insiders' account of the groundbreaking Moscow production of Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Anatoly Efros in 1966, which heralded a paradigm shift in the interpretation and staging of Chekhov's plays. It is a unique glimpse behind the...

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his...

Le Theatre du Soleil traces the company's history from a group of young, barely trained actors, directors and designers struggling to match their political commitment to a creative strategy, to their grappling with the concerns of migration, separation...

Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy offers fresh perspectives on how dramaturgs can support a production beyond rigid disciplinary expectations about what information and ideas are useful and how they should be shared.The...

The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell...

Richard Foreman has been writing, directing and designing avant-garde theatre in New York since he first founded his Ontological-Hysteric company there in 1968. In all that time, few directors have taken up the challenge of staging his problematic,...

What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? In the charged political terrain of post-genocide Rwanda, post-civil war Uganda, and...

Stage Management Basics, second edition, offers a deep dive into the basics of stage management for theatre, dance, and opera productions.Without assuming any intrinsic prior knowledge of the theatrical field and its associated, specialized terminology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585109227Author Michael WainsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

PUBLIC/PRIVATE blends a behind-the-scenes view of the Public Theater's dazzling history with an affecting memoir of the author's life with Joe Papp. She opens with the Public's beginnings in the Sixties and Seventies and the twenty-five year association...

Theatrical Violence Design offers the reader a complete education in the theory and practice of designing violence for the theater.From sword fights to exchanges of gunfire to domestic violence, the theater abounds in physical conflict. The artists who...

The Dance and Opera Stage Manager’s Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance.This book demystifies the genre-specific protocols...

In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor, Michael Chekhov made his first incursion into the challenging task of writing about an actor’s experience and his vision of the...

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 Second Edition helps the young director learn how to...

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 Second Edition helps the young director learn how to...

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca was also an accomplished theatre director with a clear process and philosophy of how drama should be staged. Directing both his own work and that of...

The Radical Act of Listening: Making Documenatry and Investigative Theatre explores best practices in the field of Documentary and Investigative theatre and offers readers a how-to guide for making their own work, written by a leading practitioner in the...

The Radical Act of Listening: Making Documenatry and Investigative Theatre explores best practices in the field of Documentary and Investigative theatre and offers readers a how-to guide for making their own work, written by a leading practitioner in the...

Theatrical Violence Design offers the reader a complete education in the theory and practice of designing violence for the theater.From sword fights to exchanges of gunfire to domestic violence, the theater abounds in physical conflict. The artists who...

This book explores an unacknowledged gap in theatre study and praxis, and establishes an inceptive model for transforming a playscript into a theatrical production involving deaf and hearing artists. The book stipulates that theatrical productions of...

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca was also an accomplished theatre director with a clear process and philosophy of how drama should be staged. Directing both his own work and that of...