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So You Want to Be a Theatre Director? »
Authors: Stephen Unwin
ISBN-13: 9781854597793, ISBN-10: 1854597795
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Stephen Unwin
Stephen Unwin founded the English Touring Theatre in 1993.
Book Synopsis
A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays--by one of Britain's leading theatre directors.
Table of Contents
| 1 | What it takes | 3 |
| 2 | What is a theatre director? | 10 |
| 3 | Starting out | 16 |
| 4 | Contexts and colleagues | 23 |
| 5 | Choice of play | 31 |
| 6 | Preparation | 44 |
| 7 | Casting | 60 |
| 8 | Design 1 : creative | 78 |
| 9 | Design 2 : practical | 95 |
| 10 | Rehearsals 1 : starting out | 103 |
| 11 | Rehearsals 2 : establishing facts | 112 |
| 12 | Rehearsals 3 : warm-ups, improvisation, games and exercises | 117 |
| 13 | Rehearsals 4 : language | 124 |
| 14 | Rehearsals 5 : character | 135 |
| 15 | Rehearsals 6 : blocking and movement | 164 |
| 16 | Rehearsals 7 : specialists | 190 |
| 17 | Rehearsals 8 : manners | 198 |
| 18 | Rehearsals 9 : running it | 205 |
| 19 | Putting it onto the stage | 210 |
| 20 | Opening | 225 |
| 21 | Hamlet, Konstantin and the radical young director | 233 |
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