Format:
1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350103696
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9781350103672
Content:
"With an exclusive focus on text-based theatre-making, Inside the Rehearsal Room is both an instructional and conceptual examination of the rehearsal process. Drawing on professional practice and underpinned by theory, this book moves through each stage of rehearsals, considering the inter-connectivity between the actor, director, designers and the backstage team, and how the cumulative effect of the weeks in rehearsal influences the final production. The book introduces pre-rehearsal collaborative decisions that ultimately affect the rehearsal process, including those made by producers, directors and designers. Leading us then through the rehearsal methods and methodologies, it examines breakthrough moments on the rehearsal floor between directors and actors. How do these come about? What conditions must be inplace for breakthroughs to be made? How important is the production concept or frame? How does the playwright directly, or indirectly, inform production and rehearsal choices? Having moved through each stage of the rehearsal process, examining the inter-connectivity between all of them, the book concludes with how technical and production elements encourage decision-making moments and how the rise of, in particular, the European theatre director has introduced a scenographic and visual world for actors to navigate. The text also includes: auto-ethnographic and fully ethno-graphic case study approaches to different rehearsal rooms - Interviews with directors, actors, designers and actor trainers - A consideration of the ethics of the rehearsal room and material selected for production - Practical exercises on how to creatively read a text from an acting and directing perspective Informed by over 20 years of directing experience in the UK and Europe, Robert Marsden's book offers a practical guide that ultimately demystifies the rehearsal process and challenges how the rehearsal room should be run in the twenty-first century."--
Note:
1. Introduction -- 2. The rehearsal process -- an historical overview and current challenges and opportunities -- 3. Documenting the process -- how have rehearsals been captured by directors, actors and academics. -- 4. Pre-rehearsal: early decisions. -- 5. The Rehearsal room: first steps. -- 6. The rehearsal room: delving deeper -- 7. The rehearsal room: final stages and the emergence of the 'form' -- 8. Technical and dress: a unification. -- 9. Previews and the production run: choices and impact of a 'live' medium. -- 10. Next stages: how should rehearsal rooms operate in the 21st Century?
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350103665
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350103658
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350103696
