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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 | |