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Directing Professionally: A Practical Guide to Developing a Successful Career in Todays Theatre [Minkštas viršelis]

(Denver Center for the Performing Arts, USA), Series edited by (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 232 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 232x156x14 mm, weight: 354 g
  • Serija: Introductions to Theatre
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Jan-2019
  • Leidėjas: Methuen Drama
  • ISBN-10: 1474288766
  • ISBN-13: 9781474288767
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 232 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 232x156x14 mm, weight: 354 g
  • Serija: Introductions to Theatre
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Jan-2019
  • Leidėjas: Methuen Drama
  • ISBN-10: 1474288766
  • ISBN-13: 9781474288767
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How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry? Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship and assistant directing to an established career as a director. Directing Professionally first lays out paths for aspirant directors to train, grow and succeed as directors, then advises freelance directors on how to establish and accelerate their professional careers. It also reveals the most significant ways those directors become artistic directors today. With a frank, thoughtful and often humorous examination of the job of professional direction and artistic direction, Thompson writes about the passion, commitment, artistic vision, directorial experience, leadership skills, and powerful persuasive gifts needed to succeed in this extraordinary field.

Featuring case studies and brief interviews with professional theatre directors, artistic directors, producers, critics, managing/executive directors, and theatre leaders currently working in the field in the UK and the US, this volume will equip you to develop your career as a professional director in today's theatre.

Recenzijos

Kent Thompsons Directing Professionally is the perfect blend of the real experience of directing in professional theatre and the process needed to direct in todays theatre companies... Kent's optimistic and realistic book is an invaluable guide for every student of directing or emerging director. -- Jane Page, University of California, USA

Daugiau informacijos

Offers a practical yet sophisticated overview for aspirant and professional theatre directors of the fundamentals of stage direction, education and experience opportunities, developing an aesthetic as a director, pathways to directing professionally, and advancing ones professional career beyond freelance directing.
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xii
Art, craft, and business xvi
To train or not to train xix
Part I Entering the Theatre Field
1 The Big Leap
3(16)
Location, location, location
4(1)
Money, money, money
5(2)
Developing your aesthetic
7(2)
Finding a pathway forward
9(2)
Leverage your faculty and fellow alumni
11(1)
Understanding professional expectations
12(1)
Directing for the subsidized or not-for-profit theatres
13(2)
Directing in the commercial theatre
15(1)
Directing for conservatory or university programs
16(1)
Finding a mentor
17(1)
Finding collaborators and colleagues
18(1)
2 Understanding the Business of Theatre
19(8)
An agent or a manager
21(1)
Staying alive
22(5)
Part II Your First Professional Job
3 Interviewing for the Job
27(8)
Script, design, and production analysis
29(2)
Who are you working for?
31(1)
The interview
32(2)
Negotiations and arrangements
34(1)
4 The Director's Work in Pre-Production
35(30)
Immersion in the script
38(2)
Your artistic vision
40(3)
The creative team
43(2)
Director/designer conference
45(6)
Casting and hiring
51(6)
Working with casting directors
57(1)
Auditions
57(3)
Callbacks
60(1)
Making decisions, making offers
61(4)
5 Rehearsals in the Studio
65(25)
Before rehearsals begin
65(3)
The first rehearsal
68(1)
The first read-through
69(2)
Table work
71(1)
Blocking rehearsals
72(3)
Managing the room and setting expectations
75(6)
Working with production staff
81(1)
Scene work
82(3)
Preparing to move
85(2)
The stumble-through
87(1)
First run-through
87(3)
6 Moving into the Theatre through Final Dress
90(13)
Practices and expectations
91(1)
First day in the theatre
91(1)
Testing your staging
92(1)
Technical/dress rehearsals
93(4)
Working with designers
97(2)
Take care of the actors
99(1)
The temptations of tech
100(2)
Final dress rehearsal
102(1)
7 Previews through Opening
103(16)
Post-show production meetings
106(2)
Notes with the artistic director or producer
108(3)
Major changes in previews
111(1)
Bringing the ship into port
111(2)
Opening night
113(6)
Part III Advancing Your Career
8 Finding Your Next Directing Job(s)
119(14)
Finding agents and advocates
121(1)
Next steps
122(1)
Communications and networking
123(3)
Knowing the field
126(6)
Life on the road
132(1)
9 Directing New Plays and Musicals
133(13)
Understanding the rights of playwrights
134(1)
Typical cycle of development
134(1)
The director's role
135(2)
Working with the playwright
137(1)
Directing workshops and readings
138(3)
Directing the world premiere
141(3)
Devotion to new work
144(2)
10 Nurturing Your Art and Yourself
146(7)
Part IV Becoming an Artistic Director
11 Leading a Theatre ... or Not
153(11)
The job
154(2)
Understanding mission and vision
156(2)
Organizational structure
158(1)
Learning from artistic directors
159(1)
Explore and research
160(1)
From freelance directing to artistic direction
160(4)
12 Getting the Artistic Director Job
164(16)
Typical search process
164(3)
Initial contacts
167(1)
The job profile
167(4)
Evaluating the job profile
171(1)
Your application
172(1)
The interviews
173(2)
The shortlist
175(2)
The final interview
177(1)
The results
178(2)
13 Preparing to Lead
180(10)
Announcing your appointment
180(1)
Understanding the transition
181(1)
Take control of your calendar
182(1)
Build relationships
182(2)
Learn what you don't know
184(1)
Putting your vision into action
185(2)
Selling your vision
187(1)
An unpleasant surprise
188(1)
Final thoughts
188(2)
Conclusion 190(2)
Notes 192(3)
Further Reading 195(1)
About the Author 196(1)
Index 197
Kent Thompson is a theatre director, producer, educator and writer. He has led two major regional theatres in the U.S., the Denver Center Theatre Company from 2005 to 2017 and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival from 1989 to 2005. Thompson is an accomplished director of Shakespeare and classics as well as new plays. Widely known as an advocate, supporter, developer and producer of new plays and musicals, Thompson created two new play festivals: the Colorado New Play Summit and the Southern Writers Project. In Denver, he also created Off Center to create immersive, innovative programming for millennials and The Womens Voices Fund to commission new plays by women. Thompson has commissioned more than 65 new plays and produced 48 world premieres. He served as board president of Theatre Communications Group (the national organization for the American theatre), and has served on numerous peer panels, including Doris Duke Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust, National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Panel (also Chair), and Fulbright Scholars Panel. He is currently a member of the Playwright Award Advisory Committee of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. He is a graduate of The College of William & Mary, USA, and The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, UK.