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Play Directing : Analysis, Communication and Style
ISBN: 9780136828327 | 0136828329
Edition: 3rdPublisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 1/1/1988
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This authoritative and highly respected classic text and "workbook" explores all aspects of directing plays in live theatre, including working with actors, playwrights, and designers. Thoroughly revised and updated, Play Directing, Fourth Edition, outlines for readers a technical method for examining the structure of ALL playscripts in order to show how plays are made and how directors can prepare. Author Francis Hodge focuses on the various methods a director can use in communicating with actors and designers. In addition, Hodge illustrates how to bring out the actor through visual stimulations and through the development of oral-aural expertise.
| List of Plays Used in Photographs | |
| List of Authors Whose Plays Appear in Photographs | |
| Dedication and Credits for Photographs | |
| Preface | |
| Why the Director? | p. 1 |
| Capturing the Wild Bird: The Dramatic Poet and the Director's Job | p. 7 |
| The Foundation and Facade of the Playscript: Given Circumstances and Dialogue | p. 18 |
| The Hard Core of the Playscript: Dramatic Actio... MORE | p. 30 |
| The Derivatives of Dramatic Action in a Playscript: Idea and Rhythmic Beats | p. 46 |
| The Director's Preparation: The Basis of Communication | p. 60 |
| Directing is Communicating: Working with Actors | p. 66 |
| Learning to See: Game of Visual Perception | p. 78 |
| The Groundplan: The Basic Tool in Director-Actor Communication | p. 80 |
| Composition: Discovering and Projecting Basic Relationships | p. 94 |
| Helping Each Actor Intensify: Gesture and Improvisation with Properties | p. 125 |
| Picturization: Helping a Group Intensify | p. 134 |
| The Dynamic Tool of Movement | p. 146 |
| Coordinating Visual Tools in Director-Actor Communication | p. 155 |
| The Director's Job is Finding Oral and Visual Balance | p. 163 |
| Directing is Designing | p. 201 |
| The Director and the Stage Machine: Symbolization and Synthesis | p. 208 |
| Director's Options 1: Choice of the Stage | p. 217 |
| Director's Options 2: Scenery, Properties, and Lighting | p. 234 |
| Director's Options 3: Costume, Makeup, and Sound Effects | p. 257 |
| Responsibility to Audiences | p. 278 |
| Style is Individual Expression | p. 288 |
| Style in Playwriting and Playwrights | p. 299 |
| The Director's Analysis of Style in a Playscript | p. 316 |
| Style in Production: Making Decisions | p. 330 |
| Style in Production: Modern Plays | p. 344 |
| Style in Production: New Plays | p. 361 |
| Style in Production: Musical Theatre and Opera | p. 367 |
| Style in Production: Plays of Past Ages | p. 372 |
| Epilogue: On the Road: Your Future as a Director | p. 397 |
| Bibliography | p. 406 |
| Index | p. 413 |
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