The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theatre productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers, stage managers, and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theatre, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises. New to the second edition: * updated…mehr
The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theatre productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers, stage managers, and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theatre, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises. New to the second edition: * updated interviews, exercises, forms, and appendices * new chapter on technology including digital research, previsualization and drafting programs, and web-sharing sites * new chapter on devised and ensemble-based works * new chapter on immersive theatre, including material and exercises on environmental staging and audience-performer interaction
Robert Knopf is Professor of Theater at the University of Buffalo. A theater director and scholar, he is the author of The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton (Princeton University Press, 1999). For Yale University Press, he co-edited Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1950-2000 (2011), and edited Theater and Film (2004), and Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 (2015). For the stage, he has directed at Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Cherry Lane Studio, Paradise Factory, Circle Rep Lab, and historic Town Hall, all in New York City. He served as dramaturg for the National Public Radio series The Archaeology of Lost Voices, for which he adapted and directed the docudrama Hidden Dragon. Prior to his current teaching position, he taught at Purdue University and the University of Michigan, where he was Director of Graduate Studies in Theater.
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CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction What Is Collaboration? The Core Action The Responsibilities of Collaboration Fundamental Techniques Supplemental Reading 1 Collaboration and Leadership Balancing Leadership and Collaboration Supplemental Reading 2 Core Action Story and Plot Exercise Critique Action Analysis Script Analysis Key Terms Supplemental Reading 3 Collaboration in Rehearsal The First Scene Collaboration Preparation Sample Rehearsal Schedule Rehearsal Observations Videotaping Rehearsals Supplemental Reading 4 Directing Elements Textual Elements Structure Actions and Objectives Shifts and Key Moments Groundplan Character Relationship and Status Language Visceral Elements Tempo and Rhythm Sound and Mood Visual Composition Movement Stage Configurations Gesture Environment Style Integrating Directing Elements Script Analysis Dramaturgy Checklist 5 Design Collaboration Core Action Statements Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Design Timetable Key Terms Supplemental Reading 6 Other Collaborators Playwrights Readings and Staged Readings Dramaturgy Music Directors and Choreographers Key Terms 7 Collaboration and Technology Technology as a Tool for Collaboration Technologists and Technical Directors 8 Devised and Immersive Theaters Devised Theatre Immersive Theatre 9 Auditions and Casting Casting the One-Act Plays Audition Goals Supplemental Reading APPENDIX A Forms Project Proposal Form Sample Audition Notice Audition Form Sample Callback Form Sample Cast List Rehearsal Observation Form Producing Checklist Program Information Poster Information Course Outline APPENDIX B Glossary of Key Terms APPENDIX C Bibliography of One-Act Plays APPENDIX D Selected Bibliography Directing Acting Design Playwriting Dramaturgy Ensembles Theater History and Theory Management Publicity Index
CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction What Is Collaboration? The Core Action The Responsibilities of Collaboration Fundamental Techniques Supplemental Reading 1 Collaboration and Leadership Balancing Leadership and Collaboration Supplemental Reading 2 Core Action Story and Plot Exercise Critique Action Analysis Script Analysis Key Terms Supplemental Reading 3 Collaboration in Rehearsal The First Scene Collaboration Preparation Sample Rehearsal Schedule Rehearsal Observations Videotaping Rehearsals Supplemental Reading 4 Directing Elements Textual Elements Structure Actions and Objectives Shifts and Key Moments Groundplan Character Relationship and Status Language Visceral Elements Tempo and Rhythm Sound and Mood Visual Composition Movement Stage Configurations Gesture Environment Style Integrating Directing Elements Script Analysis Dramaturgy Checklist 5 Design Collaboration Core Action Statements Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Design Timetable Key Terms Supplemental Reading 6 Other Collaborators Playwrights Readings and Staged Readings Dramaturgy Music Directors and Choreographers Key Terms 7 Collaboration and Technology Technology as a Tool for Collaboration Technologists and Technical Directors 8 Devised and Immersive Theaters Devised Theatre Immersive Theatre 9 Auditions and Casting Casting the One-Act Plays Audition Goals Supplemental Reading APPENDIX A Forms Project Proposal Form Sample Audition Notice Audition Form Sample Callback Form Sample Cast List Rehearsal Observation Form Producing Checklist Program Information Poster Information Course Outline APPENDIX B Glossary of Key Terms APPENDIX C Bibliography of One-Act Plays APPENDIX D Selected Bibliography Directing Acting Design Playwriting Dramaturgy Ensembles Theater History and Theory Management Publicity Index
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