How to read a play : script analysis for directors / Damon Kiely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiely, Damon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Explication.

Drama.

Theater--Production and direction.

Theater.

Physical Description:

xi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

How to Read a play provides a broad range of tools and methods for reading a play text, exploring a series of possible approaches for those who hope to brig it to life on the stage. The work done before the first rehearsal, preliminary reading, or even before the cast has met can be crucial to the success of a production, How to Read a Play provides essential guidance on how to analyze, understand, and interpret a play for performance. The book is divided into four sections: lessons from the past, detailing approaches from Aristotle through to Stanislavski and Brecht and establishing the models and methods that underpin much of directors' work today; a survey of current practices, including interviews and observation of practical work; this section is divided according to the director's tasks: digging into the script, preparing for design and casting, and gearing up to rehearse; reading a play without a script considering the analysis of non-traditional plays and texts, and offering guidance on devising work; and a workbook of play analysis, outlining exercises based on the survey of current practices and designed as a practical guide to analyzing a chosen text. The goal of How to Read a Play is to get students to dig deeply into the text for meaning and author intent and for what will work on stage. Having come to understand and experiment with a range of models, readers will be equipped to create their own brand of analysis. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Lessons from the Past 3

3 Survey of Current Practices 32

4 Reading a Play without a Script 107

5 Workbook Chapter 137.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780415748230

9780415748223

0415748224

0415748232

OCLC:

919202289

Publisher Number:

99967719174