Play Directing : Analysis, Communication and Style

Name: Play Directing : Analysis, Communication and Style
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ISBN: 9780136828235

ISBN-10: 013682823X

ISBN-13: 9780136828235

Edition: 2nd 1982

Authors: Francis Hodge

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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.

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 368
Language: English

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 Action and Characters	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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