Stagecraft category: 144 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
In this dynamic collection a team of experts map the development of Live Art culturally, thematically and historically. Supported with examples from around the world, the text engages with a number of key practices, asking what these practices do and how they can be contextualised and understood.
by Daniel Ionazzi
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1992
The stage manager is the renaissance man of the theater. He or she must have a working knowledge of how the various technical aspects of the theater work (scenery, props, costumes, lights and sound), be part director, part playwright, part designer and part producer, and be prepared to act as confidant,...
Owen McCafferty: Plays 2
Absence of Women; Titanic; Quietly; Unfaithful; Death of a Comedian; Beach
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Absence of Women
'A fine example of theatre at its small-scale best.' Evening Standard
Titanic
'Owen McCafferty's rigorous verbatim play provides an antidote to Titanic fatigue... Two months of hearings from 97 witnesses are whittled down to nine... What remains, even after a century, is a...
Culture is the Body
The Theatre Writings of Tadashi Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
"Mr. Suzuki's art seeks to reach audiences not through the intellect but through the senses and instincts."—New York Times
"In my opinion, a 'cultured' society is one where the perceptive and expressive abilities of the human body are used to the full; where they provide the...
As You Like It
Including Stage Directions for All Levels of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Nick Newlin has broad experience marketing the Nicolo Whimsey Show to high school and library systems, and will incorporate The Thirty Minute Shakespeare into the Nicolo Whimsey website, mailings, school fairs, etc. We have purchased and successfully used theater mailing lists from MDR in the past,...
Freeing Shakespeare's Voice
The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own.
Script Analysis for Theatre
Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions. Based largely on...
Broadway General Manager
Demystifying the Most Important and Least Understood Role in Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“An absolutely indispensable theater lover’s guide to how Broadway works.” —Peter Marks, chief theater critic, Washington Post
“Highly recommended for those considering theater as a career and for those who love theater and want to know more about what goes on before the curtain goes...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
There are other “cuttings” of Shakespeare plays, but these abridgements are unique in preserving Shakespeare’s original language, creating effective narrative bridges so that audiences can easily follow the story, and providing simple set designs and lively stage directions – all “road tested”...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Love’s Labor’s Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare plays three action-packed scenes from this tale of King Navarre and his three lords, who have vowed to retire from women for three years. Naturally, the Princess of France and her three ladies arrive, and comedic courtship ensues.The cutting includes...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited."The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series...
Theatre and Performance Design
A Reader in Scenography
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices.
Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences are brought together...
Moment Work
Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A detailed guide to the collaborative method developed by the acclaimed creators of The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency--destined to become a classic. A Vintage Original.
By Moisés Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams with Leigh Fondakowski, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Kelli Simpkins, Jimmy...
The Tempest
The 30-Minute Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The Tempest: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers eight scenes from this rich comedy. Beginning with the magical storm and shipwreck, this adaptation includes the uproarious discovery of the monster Caliban and his plot to kill Prospero. Included are the heartfelt marriage vows between Ferdinand and Miranda,...