Based on interviews with over forty award-winning artists How to Rehearse a Play offers multiple solutions to the challenges that directors face from first rehearsal to opening night. The book provides a wealth of information on how to run a rehearsal room suggesting different paths and encouraging directors to shape their own process. It is divided into four sections: lessons from the past: a brief survey of influential directors including Stanislavski’s acting methods and Anne Bogart’s theories on movement; a survey of current practices: practical advice on launching a process analyzing scripts crafting staging detailing scene work collaborating in technical rehearsals and previews and opening the play to the public; rehearsing without a script: suggestions advice and exercises for devising plays through collaborative company creation; rehearsal workbook: prompts and exercises to help directors discover their own process. How to Rehearse a Play is the perfect guide for any artist leading their first rehearsal heading to graduate school for intense study or just looking for ways to refresh and reinvigorate their artistry. |How to Rehearse a Play A Practical Guide for Directors | Theatre and Performance
