Authors: Peter Maccoy, Nicholas Hytner, Maccoy Peter, Nicholas Hytner
ISBN-13: 9780878301997, ISBN-10: 0878301992
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Essentials of Stage Management provides a step-by-step guide to a little-seen but essential role in theater. As Nicholas Hytner writes in the foreword to this volume, "nobody in the theatre has to know more about everyone else's job" than the stage manager. Peter Maccoy draws upon his extensive experience as a stage manager and as a teacher to lay out the functions and responsibilities of this key theatrical profession. Chapters cover the role of stage management, stage manager as manager, research and preparation, preparing for rehearsal, the rehearsal period, the production period, the performance and beyond, stage properties, safe practice, and contemporary practice. Includes a bibliography, six appendixes, and index.
Foreword | 5 | |
1 | The role of stage management | 10 |
2 | The stage manager as manager | 24 |
3 | Research and preparation | 57 |
4 | Preparing for rehearsals | 78 |
5 | The rehearsal period | 112 |
6 | The production period | 141 |
7 | The performance and beyond | 169 |
8 | Stage properties | 192 |
9 | Safe practice | 214 |
10 | Contemporary practice | 229 |
Bibliography | 237 | |
App. A | Health and safety legislation | 239 |
App. B | Code of practice for health and safety demonstrations for performers and stage management | 239 |
App. C | Fire and evacuation procedures | 240 |
App. D | Risk control - managing the stage | 241 |
App. E | Summary of four steps to risk assessment | 244 |
App. F | Model technical rider | 245 |