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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London ; New York :
Methuen Drama,
2025.
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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.