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Author | : Bess Rowen |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2021-10-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0472054368 |
How stage directions convey not what a given moment looks like--but how it feels
Author | : Rob Urbinati |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Acting |
ISBN | : 9781138841284 |
Play Readings: A Complete Guide for Theatre Practitioners demystifies the standards and protocols of a play reading, demonstrating how to create effective and evocative readings for those new to or inexperienced with the genre. It examines all of the essential considerations involved in readings, including the use of the venue, pre-reading preparations, playwright/director communication, editing/adapting stage directions, casting, using the limited rehearsal time effectively, simple "staging" suggestions, working with actors, handling complex stage directions, talkbacks, and limiting the use of props, costumes, and music. A variety of readings are covered, including readings of musicals, operas, and period plays, for comprehensive coverage of this increasingly prevalent production form.
Author | : Stephen Peithman |
Publisher | : Drama |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780325001128 |
Every director, from the beginner to the most experienced, will find in this book invaluable information to make their direction more effective. Following a general overview of the director's role, the book focuses on how the director shapes and guides a production - from preproduction meetings to curtain calls. Veteran directors and actors in community, regional, and academic theatre offer their expertise on a range of topics, including: selecting the right play things to look for in an audition criticizing effectively basics of directing a musical staging a big show with a small cast blocking tips managing rehearsal and schedules and much more. Directors may be an unseen presence in stage productions, but their influence is everywhere to be seen - and heard. Stage Directions Guide to Directing provides welcome support to directors charged with unlocking the full potential of their productions.
Author | : Hardin L. Aasand |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780838639467 |
The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater.
Author | : Philip Butterworth |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2022-07-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1000610691 |
When we speak of theatre, we think we know what a stage direction is: we tend to think of it as an authorial requirement, devised to be complementary to the spoken text and directed at those who put on a play as to what, when, where, how or why a moment, action or its staging should be completed. This is the general understanding to condition a theatrical convention known as the 'stage direction'. As such, we recognise that the stage direction is directed towards actors, directors, designers, and any others who have a part to play in the practical realisation of the play. And perhaps we think that this has always been the case. However, the term 'stage direction' is not a medieval one, nor does an English medieval equivalent term exist to codify the functions contained in extraneous manuscript notes, requirements, directions or records. The medieval English stage direction does not generally function in this way: it mainly exists as an observed record of earlier performance. There are examples of other functions, but even they are not directed at players or those involved in creating performance. More than 2000 stage directions from 40 or so plays and cycles have been included in the catalogue of the volume, and over 400 of those have been selected for analysis throughout the work. The purpose of this research is to examine the theatrical functions of medieval English stage directions as records of earlier performance. Examples of such functions are largely taken from outdoor scriptural plays. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, medieval history and literature.
Author | : Randy Ingermanson |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-07-18 |
Genre | : Creative writing |
ISBN | : 9781500574055 |
The Snowflake Method-ten battle-tested steps that jump-start your creativity and help you quickly map out your story.
Author | : Gillian Woods |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1474257488 |
What do 'stage directions' do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label 'stage direction' helpful or misleading? Do these 'directions' provide evidence of Renaissance playhouse practice? What happens when we put them at the centre of literary close readings of early modern plays? Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre investigates these problems through innovative research by a range of international experts. This collection of essays examines the creative possibilities of stage directions and and their implications for actors and audiences, readers and editors, historians and contemporary critics. Looking at the different ways stage directions make meaning, this volume provides new insights into a range of Renaissance plays.
Author | : Alan C. Dessen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521000291 |
This dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over 900 terms found in the stage directions of plays for the professional stage written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The authors draw on a database of over 22,000 stage directions drawn from around 500 plays. Each entry defines a term, gives examples of how it is used, cites additional instances, and gives cross-references to other relevant entries. This will be an indispensable work of reference for scholars, historians, directors and actors.
Author | : Sharon M. Draper |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2013-07-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442489138 |
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
Author | : Lawrence Stern |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2015-09-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317343905 |
Revered as the authoritative resource for stage management, this text offers students a practical manual on how to stage manage in all theater environments. Rich with practical resources — checklists, diagrams, examples, forms and step-by-step directions — Stage Management eschews excessive discussion of philosophy and gets right to the essential materials and processes of putting on a production. In addition to sharing his own expertise, Stern has gathered practical advice from working stage managers of Broadway, off-Broadway, touring companies, regional, community, and 99-seat Equity waiver theaters.