How to Read a Play

How to Read a Play
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9781317283621
ISBN-13 : 1317283627
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Book Synopsis How to Read a Play by : Damon Kiely

Download or read book How to Read a Play written by Damon Kiely and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Read a Play outlines the cruicial work required for a play before the first rehearsal, the first group reading or even the before the cast have met. Directors and dramaturgs must know how to analyze, understand and interpret a play or performance text if they hope to bring it to life on the stage. This book provides a broad range of tools and methods that can be used when reading a text, including: Lessons from the past. What can we learn from Aristotle, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Vakhtangov, Brecht and Harold Clurman? This section establishes the models and methods that underpin much of a director’s work today. A survey of current practices in Western theatre. A combination of research, interviews and observation of practical work addresses the main stages in understanding a play, such as getting to know characters, sharing ideas, mapping the action and grappling with language. A workbook, setting out twenty one ways of breaking down a play, from the general to the particular. Contributions, reflections and interjections from a host of successful directors make this the ideal starting point for anyone who wants to direct a play, or even devise one of their own. This wide range of different approaches, options and techniques allows each reader to create their own brand of play analysis.


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