How to rehearse a play : a practical guide for directors / Damon Kiely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiely, Damon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Production and direction.

Theater.

Theater rehearsals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"Based on interviews with over forty award-winning artists, How to Rehearse a Play offers multiple solutions to the challenges that directors face from first rehearsal to opening night. The book provides a wealth of information on how to run a rehearsal room, suggesting different paths and encouraging directors to shape their own. It is dived into four sections: lessons from the past: a brief survey of influential directors, including Stanislavsky's acting methods and Anne Bogart's theories on movement; a survey of current practices: practical advice on launching a process, analysing scripts, crafting staging, detailing scene work, collaborating in technical rehearsals and previews, and opening the play to the public; rehearsing without a script: suggestions, advice, and exercises for devising plays through collaborative company creation; rehearsal workbook: prompts and exercises to help directors discover their own rehearsal process. How to Rehearse a Play is the perfect guide for any artist leading their first rehearsal, heading to graduate school for intense study, or just looking for ways to refresh and reinvigorate their process"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lessons from the past

A survey of current practices

Rehearsing a play without a script : notes on devising

Rehearsal workbook.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCO, viewed on January 12, 2022).

ISBN:

1-351-05375-2

1-351-05377-9

1-351-05376-0

9781351053778

OCLC:

1142869970