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1) The perfect stage crew: the complete technical guide for high school, college, and community theater
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Here is a must-have book for anyone producing a stage show without a Broadway-sized budget. Written by a technical theater veteran, The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common and the most complex stage performance problems, even for theaters with a lack of resources. An invaluable guide for middle and high school theaters, college theaters, and community theaters, The Perfect Stage Crew teaches...
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"Shakespeare's Ear presents dark and sometimes funny pieces of fact and folklore that bedevil the mostly unknown history of theater. All manner of skullduggery, from revenge to murder, from affairs to persecution, proves that the drama off-stage was just as intense as any portrayed on it. The stories include those of: An ancient Greek writer of tragedies who dies when an eagle drops a tortoise on his head. A sixteenth-century English playwright who...
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By focusing on five fundamentals for staging a play-Story, Intention, Character, Space, and Theme-veteran theater directors Robert Moss and Wendy Dann help stage directors learn how to build their own practice and begin to master the daunting task of staging a story.
4) La Patasola
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En nuestro folclor colombiano, la Patasola es una mujer monstruosa que tiene una sola pierna en forma de pezuña y un aspecto aterrador. Sin embargo, es la protectora de los animales y del medio ambiente. En esta historia una firma petrolera extranjera se instala en un lugar de los llanos orientales para perforar la tierra, con el consecuente daño ecológico. Uno de los personajes principales, "el gringo", es además abusivo y desconsiderado con...
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In the absence of full-length texts on actor-director coaching for the stage, Forrest Sears aims to fill the gap with his book, Director Actor Coach: Solutions for Director/Actor Challenges. With a friendly, informal tone and easy-to-understand concepts and exercises, it's geared toward those involved in college- and university-level theatre arts programs, and presents an attractive supplement to the traditional instructional methods utilized in both...
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Las traducciones tienen gran valor por la forma como transmiten el conocimiento de un idioma a otro. El aporte agregado en esta obra radica en que nos clarifica la esencialidad de las premisas y los ejercicios del maestro Theodoros Terzopoulos, director del grupo Attis Theatre, una de las grandes figuras internacionales de la escena contemporánea. El autor nos brinda una nueva lectura y práctica sobre lo que entendíamos como teatro griego. Terzopoulos,...
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With hands-on advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide to starting a theater company imparts essential backstage know-how for would-be playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and successfully navigating tricky legal issues. Chronicling three seasons at Chicago's award-winning Congo Square Theatre Company, this journey behind the...
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El "training", adoptado como un término transnacional, permite conceptualizar el trabajo de preparación del actor más allá de una mera gimnástica, implícita en las connotaciones deportivas y militares asociadas al término "entrenamiento". Pero marca también una diferencia entre la educación y enseñanza impartida en escuelas institucionales, y los proyectos alternativos de formación actoral integral que propiciaron las transformaciones del...
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Here is a practical, accessible introduction to one of the most complex jobs in theatre. Linda Apperson clearly and concisely leads the reader through the procedures and responsibilities of stage management, from auditions to closing night. What is "blocking"? How do you "call" a show? Who is the technical director, and why do you want him or her as your best friend? How can you tame (or endure) a prima donna? When is the best time to offer advice...
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Terry McCabe, himself an accomplished stage director and teacher of theatre arts, here attacks what he calls the growing decadence that plagues contemporary stage directing. He argues for a radical reorganization of the director's view of his role. It has become an article of faith in the theatre, Mr. McCabe observes, that a play is about what the director chooses to have it be about. But what right does a director have to treat a play as a found...
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IT IS 9/11 and lower Manhattan is under attack. Martin Stein, his face pressed against a window on the 88th floor of World Trade Center 2, watches a gaping hole in the neighboring tower grow with ever increasing speed. Fire and smoke pour out of the building. Bewildered and terrorized, he joins an escaping crowd and begins to bargain with God. If he is saved, he promises to memorialize this catastrophe in a film that would honor all that was being...
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A collection of thoughtful and provocative reflections on how theatre practitioners think about and engage with audiences, as well as define and explore sites for performance. Through shared experience and ritual, live performance functions as a catalytic medium for progress and evolution. In the hands of artists and audience, the stage is set for the re-makings of commonwealth, or necessary revolution. Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for...
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For the potential, as well as the professional, producer and for writers, actors, directors, and investors, this book is for anyone wanting or needing to understand the process of producing Off Broadway plays from start to finish. Written in crisp, clear, nonlegal language that the layman can easily understand, every page reflects the experience and expertise of Farber, a well-known and highly respected theatrical attorney. The book contains detailed...
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Concise and practical, “Fundamentals of Directing” is a distillation of Ric Knowles's twenty-five years of experience as a director, teacher of directing, and dramaturge across Canada. Organized to reproduce the chronology of a play's rehearsal, the book moves through the various stages of the directorial process, from selecting a project through auditioning; working with designers, actors, and technicians; to coordinating the work of the full...
15) Consultations
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Le docteur Marie-Clotilde Ciboulot est une femme âgée d'une cinquantaine d'années qui exerce la médecine traditionnelle. Elle forme un duo inattendu avec un jeune interne passionné par la médecine moderne. Ensemble, ils se retrouvent face à toute une galerie de patients aux histoires variées. C'est un duel de pratiques médicales. Qui sortira victorieux de cette joute ?
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Elsa Krim, neurologue dans le sud-ouest de...
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What does a "producer" actually do? How does one travel from that great idea for a show to a smash hit opening night on Broadway? John Breglio cannot guarantee you a hit, but he does take the reader on a fascinating journey behind-the-scenes to where he himself once stood as a child, dreaming about the theatre.
Part memoir, part handbook, I Wanna Be a Producer is a road map to the hows and wherefores, the dos and don'ts of producing a Broadway play,...
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Al igual que otras prácticas, el teatro fue utilizado como arma de lucha, instrumento básico para la toma de conciencia y preparación ideológica del pueblo, fuerza motriz de la revolución. Actores, dramaturgos, incluso grupos completos, se alinearon con uno u otro proyecto político de izquierda y llegaron, en algunos casos, a convertirse en el brazo legal a través del cual organizaciones clandestinas reclutaron militantes para la guerrilla.
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In The Crafty Art of Playmaking, this seminal guide from renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn shares his tricks of the trade.
From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, this book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for those with more experience. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and a heady air of sophistication, The Crafty Art of Playmaking is a must-have for aspiring playwrights,...
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Using the experience of authors Richard Hahlo and Peter Reynolds in a variety of educational, business and theater settings, Dramatic Events: How to Run a Workshop for Theater, Education or Business investigates the connection between practical theater work and drama theory, and its effect on the development and dynamic of any working group.
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Advice Culled from Interviews with More Than 100 Experts in the Field.
In Running Theaters, management consultant and author Duncan M. Webb reveals the best practices that consistently lead to successful theater operations. Culled from surveys and interviews with theater managers and experts in crucial functional areas, this guide provides important tips for all people who work or want to work in regional, campus, and community-based theaters....
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