Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers - Softcover

Thomas, James

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9781032382043: Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers
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ISBN 10: 103238204X ISBN 13: 9781032382043
Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers, Seventh Edition, teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to evaluate its potentials for performance and production.

This new edition features new and revised content, including an analysis of two new plays, Kalidasa’s Shakuntala and Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba; information for the theatre designer integrated in chapters throughout the book; and an expanded appendix on critical approaches to script analysis. Explorations of both classic and unconventional plays are combined with clear examples, end-of-chapter summaries, and stimulating questions that will allow actors, directors, and designers to immediately incorporate the concepts and processes into their theatre production work.

An excellent resource for students of acting, script analysis, directing, playwriting, and stage design courses, this book provides the tools to effectively bring a script to life on stage.

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About the Author

James Thomas is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Wayne State University, USA. His publications include The Seagull: An Insider’s Account of the Groundbreaking Moscow Production; A Director’s Guide to Stanislavsky’s Active Analysis; The Art of the Actor Manager: Wilson Barrett and the Victorian Theatre; and translations of The Joy of Rehearsal, The Craft of Rehearsal, and Beyond Rehearsal by Russian director Anatoly Efros. He was a contributor to Russian Theatre in Practice and his research has been published in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Scene. He is also founding director of Wayne State University’s Summer Study Abroad Intensive with the Moscow Art Theatre School.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
103238204X
ISBN 13 
9781032382043
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
246
Rating
  • 3.74 out of 5 stars
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