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How to Read a Play: Script Analysis for Directors

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Availability:In StockContributor:Damon KielyPublish date:2024-10-08Pages:194
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781032470825ISBN-10:1032470828UPC:9781032470825Book Category:Drama, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:TheaterBook Topic:Direction & ProductionSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCAQ4GCZJP

Now in a fully updated second edition, How to Read a Play offers methods for analyzing play scripts from a diverse range of perspectives, giving directors practical tools as they prepare for production.

Based on interviews with award-winning directors, university professors, and experimental theatre companies, How to Read a Play provides practical advice on how to first approach a script, prepare for design meetings, get ready for casting sessions, and lay the groundwork for rehearsals with actors. The book starts with a brief historical overview of famous directors, surveys the work of experimental theatres that devise their work, and ends with twenty-one practical exercises. The second edition includes material from interviews with a diverse range of directors and features perspectives on identity, race, trauma, and joy in working on new plays and redefined classic works.

How to Read a Play is written for anyone who loves studying the craft of directing. Students and early career directors will be introduced to basic techniques for breaking down a script for production. Established artists will enjoy a behind the scenes peek at the methods and processes of directors with a diverse range of perspectives.

Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781032470825ISBN-10:1032470828UPC:9781032470825Book Category:Drama, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:TheaterBook Topic:Direction & ProductionSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCAQ4GCZJP

Damon Kiely is a professional director, writer, and professor of directing and acting for the Theatre School at DePaul University. He is the author of How to Rehearse a Play: A Practical Guide for Directors (Routledge 2020) and Play Directing: The Basics (Routledge 2023).


Publisher: Routledge

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2nd Edition

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Damon Kiely

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