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Directing Theater 101: 10 Steps to Successful Productions for New Directors and Regional Theater Companies
Directing Theater 101: 10 Steps to Successful Productions for New Directors and Regional Theater Companies
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Author: Wilma Marcus Chandler Publisher: Smith & Kraus Format: Softcover # of Pages: 143 Pub. Date: 2008 ISBN-10: 1575255839 ISBN-13: 9781575255835
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About
the Book:
What are the practical and creative elements for becoming a
director? How do you get started? What is the best way for actors,
designers, and crew to work with directors?
Directing Theater 101 is an essential reference guide guide
that provides regional and community theater companies and new
directors with the knowledge and tools needed to produce successful
shows. It will also give drama students a chance to fully understand
the art and the craft of stage directing.
Drawing on years of experience directing and producing plays,
Wilma Marcus Chandler covers such topics as how to read and
analyze a script to really understand it. She guides new directors
with how to visualize a show and explains how to get started,
researching and thinking about concept, music, lights, sound, and
costumes. Tips are provided for how to hold auditions as well as
information on how to talk to the cast and crew – and how to
listen. New directors will learn how to stage a play, using blocking,
body movement, stage business, exits and entrances. She shares skills
for preparing a production, including rehearsal techniques, time
lines, budgets, royalties, and publicity. Also included in Directing
Theater 101 is a valuable discussion on how to prepare for a
career in directing.
What people say:
"...a
concise handbook that summarizes the key elements of play direction.
Included: how to read and analyze a script; visualizing the show,
research and concept; music, lights, sound and costumes; auditions;
how to prepare the production, including timelines, budgets,
royalties, and publicity; staging a play, including blocking body
movement, stage business, exits and entrances, and talking with
actors ... those in need of a quick-immersion experience –
particularly someone with an 'Oh, my God, I've got to direct a play'
deer-in-the-headlights situation – should find much of value here."
— Stage Directions
magazine
About the Author:
Wilma Marcus Chandler is an
American director, choreographer, and acting teacher. She chaired the
Theatre Arts department at Cabrillo College, in Santa Cruz,
California, for many years and has directed productions for many Bay
Area theater companies. She was co-founder of the National Festival
of Women's Theatre and the Santa Cruz Actors' Theatre festival of
ten-minute plays.
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