Theatre Craft: A Director's Practical Companion from A-Z (Faber Drama) - Softcover

Caird, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571237371 ISBN 13: 9780571237371

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010

Synopsis

Theatre Craft is an all-encompassing practical guide for anyone working in the theatre, from the enthusiastic amateur to the committed professional. With entries arranged alphabetically, Theatre Craft offers advice on all areas of directing, from Acting, Adaptation, and Accent to Sound Effects, Superstition, Trap Doors, and Wardrobe.

Enlightening and entertaining by turns, the celebrated director John Caird, honorary associate director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, shares his profound knowledge and wealth of international experience to provide an invaluable companion for anyone creating any size of play, musical, or opera―from the back room of a bar to a full-scale production on Broadway. This is required reading for the modern theatre practitioner.

About this title

About the Author

John Caird has directed and adapted countless productions of plays, operas, and musicals for London’s National Theatre, in the West End, on Broadway, and for the Royal Shakespeare Company―from Les Misérables and Nicholas Nickleby to Hamlet and Peter Pan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571237371
• ISBN 13: 9780571237371
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 816