So You Want to be a Theatre Director?Nick Hern Books, 2004 - 248 pages As artistic director of English Touring Theatre ("the company of the moment"--Daily Mail), Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of venues. In this book, he takes readers step-by-step through choosing the play, casting, design, rehearsal, running the play, putting it on stage and on to opening night. |
Contents
4 | 23 |
5 | 31 |
6 | 44 |
7 | 60 |
8 | 78 |
9 | 95 |
10 | 103 |
11 | 112 |
Character | 135 |
Blocking and Movement | 164 |
16 | 190 |
18 | 205 |
20 | 213 |
21 | 233 |
Index | 239 |
34 | 124 |
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acting action actors actress artistic director audience BLOCKING AND MOVEMENT Borkman Brecht casting director challenge character character's Chekhov Cherry Orchard classics Cordelia costume designer course creative critics crucial D.H. Lawrence decisions detail develop difficult Doll's House door drama dress rehearsal emotion essential everything experienced actors Faber feel give going Hamlet Harley Granville Barker Hedda Gabler Ibsen's idea important thing improvisation John Gabriel Borkman kind King Lear language lighting designer Lindsay Anderson look Lopakhin Methuen modern move naturalistic Osvald particular performance Peter Brook Peter Gill Peter Stein physical production manager Ranevskaya read-through realise rehearsal room relationship scene sense Shakespeare sometimes sound speak stage directions stage management story talk technical rehearsal tell TESMAN theatre director theatrical there's Timothy West understand upstage usually visual week writer young directors