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Ghost light : an introductory handbook for dramaturgy / Michael Mark Chemers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chemers, Michael M.
- Series:
- Theater in the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Production and direction.
- Theater.
- Drama--Technique.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale [Ill.] : Southern Illinois University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Philosophy. What the #$%@ is a dramaturg? Asking questions
- What kind of person becomes a dramaturg?
- Forking paths and ghost lights
- Historicizing dramaturgy
- Origins
- Dramaturgy in history
- Exercises
- Power plays
- Drama as dialectic
- Theory capsules
- Analysis. The twelve-step program for script analysts
- The steps
- Form follows function
- Comedy
- Ovidian (episodic)
- Diffused crisis
- Why this play now? doing preliminary research (and a web warning!)
- Writing a production history
- Writing a performance review
- Practice
- New plays
- Working with playwrights: forging an alliance
- Maintaining boundaries
- Devised theatre
- Documentary theatre
- Adaptation
- The company
- Working with the artistic director
- Mission statements
- Representation in rehearsal
- Season selection
- Creating a dossier
- Working with the director
- Working with designers
- Working with actors
- Sidebar: rehearsal etiquette and protocols
- Table work
- Audiences
- The front line
- Publicity
- Education
- Program notes
- Lobby displays
- Preshows and postshow talkbacks
- Blogs
- Exercises.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809329526
- 0809329522
- OCLC:
- 373561246
- Publisher Number:
- 99937780892
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