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Ghost light : an introductory handbook for dramaturgy /
Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy offers useful and entertaining answers to the confounding questions: "What, exactly, is dramaturgy, and what does a dramaturg do?" According to Michael Mark Chemers, dramaturgs are the scientists of the theater world-their primary respon...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Theater in the Americas.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Philosophy. What the #$%@ is a dramaturg? Asking questions
- What kind of person becomes a dramaturg?
- Forking paths and ghost lights
- Historicizing dramaturgy
- Origins
- Dramaturgy in history
- Exercises
- Power plays
- Drama as dialectic
- Theory capsules
- Exercises
- Analysis. The twelve-step program for script analysts
- The steps
- Exercises
- Form follows function
- Comedy
- Ovidian (episodic)
- Diffused crisis
- Exercises
- Why this play now? doing preliminary research (and a web warning!)
- Writing a production history
- Writing a performance review
- Exercises
- Practice
- New plays
- Working with playwrights: forging an alliance
- Maintaining boundaries
- Devised theatre
- Documentary theatre
- Adaptation
- Exercises
- The company
- Working with the artistic director
- Mission statements
- Representation in rehearsal
- Season selection
- Creating a dossier
- Working with the director
- Working with designers
- Working with actors
- Sidebar: rehearsal etiquette and protocols
- Table work
- Exercises
- Audiences
- The front line
- Publicity
- Education
- Program notes
- Lobby displays
- Preshows and postshow talkbacks
- Blogs
- Exercises.