Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

5. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-66325-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 732 g

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to gauge how the play should be performed and designed. Treatments of both classic and unconventional plays are combined with clear examples, end-of-chapter questions, and stimulating summaries that will allow actors, directors and designers to immediately incorporate the concepts and processes into their theatre production work.

Now thoroughly revised, the fifth edition contains a new section on postmodernism and postdramatic methods of script analysis, along with additional material for designers.

Zielgruppe

Students in script analysis courses in theatre programs, as well as acting and directing courses, drama, literary criticism. Also, students in design classes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1: Action Analysis
Chapter 2: Given Circumstances
Chapter 3: Background Story
Chapter 4: External and Internal Action
Chapter 5: Progressions and Structure
Chapter 6: Character
Chapter 7: Idea
Chapter 8: Dialogue
Chapter 9: Tempo, Rhythm, and Mood
Chapter 10: The Style of the Play
Chapter 11: Postmodernism: A Case Study

A Final Word
Appendix A: Further Questions for Script Analysis
Appendix B: Effective Analysis of the Mise-en-Scene
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Thomas, Professor of Theatre and Head of the PhD for Scholar-Directors at Wayne State University is a graduate of St. Ambrose College (BA), Villanova University (MA), and the University of Texas at Austin (PhD). Thomas has also taught theatre at Mount Holyoke College, Marquette University and Florida State University, where he was Associate Dean of the School of Theatre. His recent directing credits include Six Characters in Search of an Author and Cymbeline at Detroit's Hilberry Theatre, and Ah, Wilderness! and The Skin of our Teeth at the Bonstelle Theatre. His research has been published in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, and Contemporary Theatre Review. He is also translator of the books of Russian director Anatoly Efros and Director of Wayne State University’s Study Abroad Program with the Moscow Art Theatre School. He is currently at work on a directing textbook.