Script analysis for actors, directors, and designers / James Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, James Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Explication.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press/Elsevier, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers applies directly to the experience of theatrical production. You will immediately be able to inforporate the concepts and processes you learn into both your practical and creative work. Whether you are an actor, a director, or a designer, you will benefit from clear and comprehensive examples, end-of-chapter questions, and summaries meant to stimulate their creative process as they engage in production work.Based on the premise that plays should be objects of study in and of themselves, Script Analysis for A

Contents:

Cover; Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Action Analysis; Events; Action Analysis and Nonrealistic Plays; Chapter 2. Given Circumstances; Time; Place; Society; Economics; Politics and Law; Learning and the Arts; Spirituality; The World of the Play; Given Circumstances in Nonrealistic Plays; Chapter 3. Background Story; Technique; Identification; Background Story in Nonrealistic Plays; Chapter 4. External and Internal Action; External Action; Internal Action

External and Internal Action in Nonrealistic PlaysChapter 5. Progressions and Structure; Progressions; Structure; Progressions and Structure in Nonrealistic Plays; Chapter 6. Character; Objectives; Actions; Adaptations - An Aside; Conflict; Will Power; Values; Personality Traits; Complexity; Relationships; Character in Nonrealistic Plays; The Score of a Role; Chapter 7. Idea; Idea in the Words; Idea in the Characters; Idea in the Plot; The Main Idea; Idea in Nonrealistic Plays; Postscript on Action Analysis; Chapter 8. Dialogue; Words; Sentences; Length; Speeches; Punctuation

Special QualitiesPoetry; Theatricality; Dialogue in Nonrealistic Plays; Chapter 9. Tempo, Rhythm, and Mood; Tempo; Rhythm; Mood and Atmosphere; Tempo, Rhythm, and Mood in Nonrealistic Plays; Closing Notes on Nonrealistic Plays; Chapter 10. The Style of the Play; Given Circumstances; Background Story; Plot; Character; Idea; Dialogue; Atmosphere; A Final Word; Appendix: Further Questions for Script Analysis; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"With new material on non-realistic plays"--Cover.

Previous ed.: c2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-323) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612168987

9786613899477

9781282168985

1282168983

9781283587020

1283587025

9781136081903

1136081909

9780080927909

0080927904

OCLC:

476274909