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The Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Katie Mitchell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The Director’s Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage.

Written by one of the most adventurous and respected directors working today, this book will be an essential item in every student and practitioner’s kitbag. It provides detailed assistance with each aspect of the varied challenges facing all theatre directors, and does so with startling clarity. It will inspire everyone, from the beginner just starting out to the experienced practitioner looking to reinvigorate their practice.

Katie Mitchell shares and explains the key practical tools she uses to approach her work with both actors, production teams, and the text itself. She addresses topics such as:

    • the ideas that underpin a play’s text
    • preparing improvizations
    • Twelve Golden Rules for working with actors
    • managing the transition from rehearsal room to theatre
    • analyzing your work after a run has ended.

      Each chapter concludes with a summary of its critical points, making this an ideal reference work for both directors and actors at any stage of their development.

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        978-0415404389
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      5. Publication date
        18 August 2008
      6. Language
        English
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      'As an introduction to Stanislavski, and a demystification of the director's role, this is a comprehensive read.' - Total Theatre

      'This is particularly useful for A level students... The book has a clear, matter-of-fact style throughout... A useful resource to staff and A level students alike.' - Teaching Drama

      About the Author

      Katie Mitchell has directed plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Young Vic, and The Donmar Warehouse. Outside the UK she has directed at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden, the Koln Schauspielhaus in Cologne and the Piccolo Theatre in Milan. Her opera work includes productions for Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and English National Opera. She has received two Time Out Awards and one Evening Standard Award for Best Director.

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      • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001ON78F2
      • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (18 August 2008)
      • Language ‏ : ‎ English
      • File size ‏ : ‎ 2685 KB
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      • Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
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      Fishball L.
      5.0 out of 5 stars Useful handbook
      Reviewed in Canada on 19 October 2022
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      Absolutely worth the price.
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      Joshua T. Platt
      5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on directing
      Reviewed in the United States on 24 February 2022
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      This is the most practical and thorough book on directing ever written. Not a bit of BS in the thing. The core style that this approach can help with is psychological realism, but as she demonstrates it can be used even in the direction of a play like Beckett's "Not I." At first it may seem like a great guide for directing plays in your head, but the more I've experimented with the different tools she suggests, the more I've seen how it liberates the actors and designers as well as myself, so that everyone can tap into their own craft to find the best way forward. It's been especially amazing to see how untrained, community theater actors respond to this vocabulary and process -- how much native artistry there is in anyone who wants to act in response to the direction "make that more of an event," without dictating *how* to do it. I may never get to see Mitchell's work, but I'll be forever in debt to for her writing this book.
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      dodi
      5.0 out of 5 stars Very organized and instructive
      Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2021
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      Kate Mitchel is very organized and specific and this books helps me a lot controlling my creative projects.
      I wish she would have added at the end more about her alternative approach to theatre, the mix of media.
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      Franco Ripa di Meana
      5.0 out of 5 stars il libro di una grande regista
      Reviewed in Italy on 26 December 2015
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      ottimo libro, racconta in maniera chiara i diversi passaggi per costruire una regia; prezioso perché scritto partendo dal metodo di lavoro di una grande regista
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      Montefuego
      5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
      Reviewed in the United States on 18 March 2020
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      I am primarily directing films and television, and I found this to be the most useful book on directing that I have read (and I have a whole shelf of them). It is practical--step by step, giving you a process and a specific path to channel your creative energy and time. Although it is written for theater, much of what it talks about is relevant to film, and is absent in the books available on 'film' directing. I review it before every project, and it has made a noticeable difference in the quality of my work. Thank you, Katie!
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