Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023
With an exclusive focus on text-based theatre-making, Inside the Rehearsal Room is both an instructional and conceptual examination of the rehearsal process. Drawing on professional practice and underpinned by theory, this book moves through each stage of rehearsals, considering the inter-connectivity between the actor, director, designers and the backstage team, and how the cumulative effect of the weeks in rehearsal influences the final production.
The text also includes:
- Auto-ethnographic and fully ethno-graphic case study approaches to different rehearsal rooms - Interviews with directors, actors, designers and actor trainers - A consideration of the ethics of the rehearsal room and material selected for production - Practical exercises on how to creatively read a text from an acting and directing perspective
Informed by over 20 years of directing experience in the UK and Europe, Robert Marsden's book offers a practical guide that ultimately demystifies the rehearsal process and challenges how the rehearsal room should be run in the twenty-first century.
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Short-listed for STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 2023 (UK).Drawing on professional practice and underpinned by theory, Inside the Rehearsal Room examines the creation of text-based theatre from every stage of the rehearsal process and considers the role of the actor, director, designers and technical team in bringing a production together.
1. Introduction
2. The Rehearsal Process An Historical Overview and Current Challenges and
Opportunities
3. Documenting the Process How have rehearsals been captured by directors,
actors and academics.
4. Pre-rehearsal: Early Decisions.
5. The Rehearsal Room: First Steps.
6. The Rehearsal Room: Delving Deeper
7. The Rehearsal Room: Final Stages and the Emergence of the Form
8. Technical and Dress: A Unification.
9. Previews and the Production Run: Choices and Impact of a Live Medium.
10. Next Stages: How Should Rehearsal Rooms Operate in the 21st Century?
Robert Marsden is Head of the Department of Media and Performance at Staffordshire University, where he is also an Associate Professor in Acting and Directing. He is a Fellow in Creative Teaching and Learning and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. When he is not teaching, Robert is a busy freelance theatre director, and has worked in commercial and subsidised sectors across the UK and Europe since 1999. Roberts research includes British pantomime and rehearsal studies.
