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Summary Table of Contents

Play Directing, Sixth Edition describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play to working with actors and designers to bring it to life. The authors emphasize that the role of the director is not as a dictator, but as a leader of artists working in collaboration who look to the director for ideas that will give impetus to their fullest, most creative expressions. The text emphasizes that directing is not a finite and specific ";system"; of production, but rather is a means for providing an intensive look at ... MORE

Dedication and Credits for Photographs

Preface

Why the Director?

(5)

What Is a Play? Analysis and Improvisation

... MORE

(9)

PART I Taking a Play Apart

(1)

PLAY-ANALYSIS: THE DIRECTOR'S PRIMARY STUDY

(42)

The Foundation and Facade of the Playscript: Given Circumstances and Dialogue

(11)

The Core of the Playscript: Dramatic Action and Characters

(14)

Idea and Rhythmic Beats

(11)

The Director's Preparation

(4)

PART II Communication

(2)

THE DIRECTOR-ACTOR RELATIONSHIP AND STAGE BLOCKING

(126)

Directing Is Working with Actors---1

(8)

Learning to See: The Games of Visual Perception

(2)

Helping Actors Communicate through Groundplans

(12)

Composition: Helping Actors Discover and Project Basic Relationships

(28)

Helping Each Actor Intensify: Gesture and Improvisation with Properties

109

(8)

Picturization: Helping a Group Intensify

117

(11)

The Dynamic Tool of Movement

128

(8)

Coordinating the Blocking Tools in Director-Actor Communication

136

(6)

Helping Actors ``Speak'' a Play

142

(12)

Directing Is Working with Actors---2

154

(31)

Scene Practice

165

(16)

Diagnostic Criticism

181

(4)

THE DIRECTOR'S DESIGN FUNCTION AND COMMUNICATING THROUGH STAGING

185

(72)

Directing Is Designing

185

(6)

The Director and the Stage Machine: Symbolization and Synthesis

191

(8)

Director's Options: Choice of the Stage

199

(19)

Director's Options: Scenery, Properties, and Lighting

218

(21)

Director's Options: Costume, Makeup, and Sound

239

(18)

HELPING AUDIENCES RECEIVE A PLAY

257

(8)

Responsibility to Audiences

257

(8)

Designing and Directing Your Own Production

262

(3)

PART III Interpretation

265

(1)

A MATTER OF STYLE

265

(96)

Style Is Individual Expression

267

(10)

Style in Playwriting and Playwrights

277

(15)

The Director's Analysis of Style in a Playscript

292

(14)

Style in Production: Making Decisions

306

(13)

Style in Production: Modern Plays

319

(14)

Style in Production: New Plays

333

(5)

Style in Production: Plays of Past Ages

338

(23)

Directing with Designers

355

(6)

Appendix 1: Musical Theatre and Opera

361

(8)

Appendix 2: The Director and the Dramaturg

369

(4)

Appendix 3: Your Future as a Director

373

(10)

Bibliography

383

(8)

Index

391

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