A beginner's guide to directing theatre /

An accessible guide to the theatre directing process of text-based theatre, from the choice of the play through to an encounter with an audience.Moving from how to choose a play to the opening night, A Beginner's Guide to Directing Theatre takes the reader, via a step-by-step approach, through...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marsden, Robert (Professor in acting and directing) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2025.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • PART ONE: Introduction to directing
  • What is directing?
  • How this book is set out
  • The role of the director: what is directing?
  • The rise of the director
  • Directing without the director
  • Creativity, breakthroughs and building blocks
  • Rehearsal and production analyses
  • PART TWO: Stages of directing
  • Stage One: Choosing and establishing
  • Stage Two: Creating and forming
  • Stage Three: Building and Encouraging
  • Stage Four: Shaping and layering
  • the final stages
  • Stage Five: Delivering and entrusting
  • PART THREE: Interviews with leading theatre directors
  • Tamara Harvey
  • Holly Race Roughan
  • Josie Rourke
  • Roy Alexander Weise
  • References.