Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style
by Hodge, Francis; McLain, MichaelEdition: 7th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-06-23
Publisher(s): ROUTLEDGE
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Summary
Play Directingdescribes the role of the director as artist-leader working in collaboration with actors and designers in bringing a play to life. Some of the key topics include: play analysis, interpretation, fundamentals of staging including developing effective groundplans and blocking, mastery of style in playscripts and prduction, and effective working with actors and designers as key collaborators. This text is ideal for Introductory and Intermediate-level stage directors.
Table of Contents
| Dedication | |
| Preface and Credits for Photographs | |
| Why the Director? | |
| What Is a Play? Analysis and Improvisation | |
| Play-Analysis: Taking A Play Apart | |
| The Foundation and Facade of the Playscript: Given Circumstances and Dialogue | |
| The Core of the Playscript: Dramatic Action and Characters | |
| Idea and Rhythm-Mood Beats | |
| The Director's Preparation | |
| Communication 1: The Director-Actor Relationship And Stage Blocking | |
| Directing Is Working with Actors 1 | |
| Learning to See: The Games of Visual Perception | |
| Helping Actors Communicate through Groundplans | |
| Composition: Helping Actors Discover and Project Basic Relationships | |
| Helping Each Actor Intensify: Gesture and Improvisation with Properties | |
| Picturization: Helping a Group Intensify | |
| The Dynamic Tool of Movement | |
| Coordinating the Blocking Tools in Director-Actor Communication | |
| Helping Actors ldquo;Speakrdquo; a Play | |
| Directing is Working with Actors 2 | |
| Major Project 1A: Scene Practice | |
| Major Project 1B: Diagnostic Criticism | |
| Communication Through Staging Options | |
| The Directorrsquo;s Responsibility for Working Effectively with Design | |
| The Director and the Stage Machine: Symbolization and Synthesis | |
| Director's Options: Choice of the Stage | |
| Director's Options: Scenery, Properties, and Lighting | |
| Director's Options: Costume, Makeup, and Sound | |
| Helping Audiences Receive A Play | |
| Responsibility to Audiences | |
| Major Project 2: Designing and Directing Your Own One-Act Play Production | |
| Interpretation: A Matter Of Style | |
| Style Is Individual Expression | |
| Style in Playwriting and Playwrights | |
| The Director's Analysis of Style in a Playscript | |
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