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| List of Plays Used in Photographs | |
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| List of Authors Whose Plays Appear in Photographs | |
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| Dedication and Credits for Photographs | |
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| Preface | |
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| Why the Director? | |
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| What Is a Play? Analysis and Improvisation | |
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| Taking A Play Apart Play-Analysis: The Director's Primary Study | |
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| The Foundation and Facade of the Playscript: Given Circumstances and Dialogue | |
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| The Hard Core of the Playscript: Dramatic Action and Characters | |
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| Idea and Rhythmic Beats | |
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| The Director's Preparation | |
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| Communication | |
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| The Director-Actor Relationship and Stage Blocking | |
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| Directing Is Working with Actors | |
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| Learning to See: The Games of Visual Perception | |
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| Helping Actors Communicate through Groundplans | |
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| Composition: Helping Actors Discover and Project Basic Relationships | |
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| Helping Each Actor Intensify: Gesture and Improvisation with Properties | |
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| Picturization: Helping a Group Intensify | |
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| The Dynamic Tool of Movement | |
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| Coordinating the Blocking Tools in Director-Actor Communication | |
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| Helping Actors "Speak" A Play | |
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| Finding Oral and Visual Balance | |
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| Scene Practice | |
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| Diagnostic Criticism | |
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| The Director's Design Function and Communicating Through Staging | |
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| Directing Is Designing | |
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| The Director and the Stage Machine: Symbolization and Synthesis | |
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| Director's Options: Choice of the Stage | |
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| Director's Options: Scenery, Properties, and Lighting | |
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| Director's Options: Costume, Makeup, and Sound Effects | |
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| Helping Audiences Receive A Play | |
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| Responsibility to Audiences | |
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| Designing and Directing Your Own Production | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| A Matter of Style | |
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| Style Is Individual Expression | |
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| Style in Playwriting and Playwrights | |
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| The Director's Analysis of Style in a Playscript | |
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| Style in Production: Making Decisions | |
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| Style in Production: Modern Plays | |
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| Style in Production: New Plays | |
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| Style in Production: Plays of Past Ages | |
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| Directing With Designers | |
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| Musical Theatre and Opera | |
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| Your Future as a Director | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |