Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style

by Hodge, Francis; McLain, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780205571246
• ISBN10: 0205571247
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-23
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

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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