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Ghost light : an introductory handbook for dramaturgy /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chemers, Michael M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale [Ill.] : Southern Illinois University Press, [2010]
Series:Theater in the Americas.
Subjects:
Theater > Production and direction.
Drama > Technique.
Table of 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
  • Exercises
  • Analysis. The twelve-step program for script analysts
  • The steps
  • Exercises
  • Form follows function
  • Comedy
  • Ovidian (episodic)
  • Diffused crisis
  • Exercises
  • Why this play now? doing preliminary research (and a web warning!)
  • Writing a production history
  • Writing a performance review
  • Exercises
  • Practice
  • New plays
  • Working with playwrights: forging an alliance
  • Maintaining boundaries
  • Devised theatre
  • Documentary theatre
  • Adaptation
  • Exercises
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • Audiences
  • The front line
  • Publicity
  • Education
  • Program notes
  • Lobby displays
  • Preshows and postshow talkbacks
  • Blogs
  • Exercises.