Directing New Plays: Tools for Art and Collaboration

Title: Directing New Plays: Tools for Art and Collaboration
Author: Cabnet, Evan
Price: $44.99

Description
Every theater director will oversee a new play process in their career: here is what to expect and how to prepare.

Drawing from over 20 years of experience as a freelance director, and as the Artistic Director of LCT3 at Lincoln Center Theater, Evan Cabnet combines the creative with the pragmatic to provide an honest, useful, and entertaining look at the art of directing a new play.

Integrating practical advice with personal experience, Directing New Plays demystifies the process of directing a new work. From developing a creative vision to navigating the challenges of collaborative art-making, this book offers a comprehensive look at the director's role in the process and the tools they use at every step,

including development (readings and workshops), pre-production (casting and design), rehearsal (staging, working with actors, rewrites, and run-throughs), tech, previews, and opening a world premiere production. Incisive, supportive, and clear, this book is an indispensable resource for theater directors looking to begin- or to sustain- a career in new play development.

Table of Contents
Introduction

Part 1: Beginnings

Chapter 1: What Does a Director Do, and How Do They Do It?

Chapter 2: Finding and Reading a Text

Chapter 3: Meeting with a Writer

Part 2: Development

Chapter 4: Readings

Chapter 5: Workshops

Chapter 6: Getting the Play Produced

Part 3: Pre-Production

Chapter 7: Assembling the Creative Team

Chapter 8: Casting

Chapter 9: The Design Process

Chapter 20: The Producing Organization and Production Meetings

Part 4: Rehearsal

Chapter 11: The First Rehearsal

Chapter 12: Tablework

Chapter 13: Building a Rough Draft

Chapter 14: Preparing and Organizing a Rehearsal Day

Chapter 15: Actors

Chapter 16: The Stumble-Through and The Next Draft

Chapter 17: Rewrites

Chapter 18: Run-Throughs

Part 5: The Space

Chapter 19: Preparing for Tech

Chapter 20: Tech

Chapter 21: Dress Rehearsal

Part 6: The Audience

Chapter 22: Previews

Chapter 23: Preview Rehearsals

Chapter 24: Final Previews and Freezing a Production

Chapter 25: Opening, The Run, and Closing

Conclusion

ISBN: 9781350179264
Publishing status: AU In-stock Distributor