So You Want To Be A Theatre Director?
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A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays - by one of Britain's leading theatre directors.
Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of different venues. He is the ideal author of a 'how to' guide to directing.
As Unwin himself says: 'Directing plays is difficult. The aim of this book is to lay out what skills are needed, and to give some sense of how you might develop them. The emphasis is on the professional theatre, but the book is useful for directors in other contexts - amateur dramatics, university drama, school plays and so on. Directing is directing, wherever you do it.'
Starting at the very beginning, Unwin takes us step by step through:
- Choosing the play
- Casting
- Design
- Rehearsal - Establishing Facts, Improvisation, Language, Character, Blocking, Using Specialists and so on
- Running the Play
- Putting it on the Stage
- Opening Night
'Filled with wise insights. Any budding director who reads it will learn much about the pitfalls and challenges he or she is likely to face but will also, I'm sure, catch some of Unwin's enthusiasm for what he describes as being, at times, 'the best job you can imagine' Around the Globe
Stephen Unwin
Stephen Unwin is one of the UK’s leading theatre and opera directors. He founded the English Touring Theatre in 1993 and opened the Rose Theatre Kingston in 2008, becoming Artistic Director until 2014. He has written guides to Shakespeare’s and Brecht's plays, as well as to Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, and Twentieth-Century Drama. He is also the author of The Complete Brecht Toolkit and So You Want To Be A Theatre Director? His first original play as a writer, All Our Children, was premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2017. He is a campaigner for the rights and opportunities of people with learning disabilities and was appointed the Chair of KIDS in November 2016, the national charity providing services to disabled children, young people and their families.
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