| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
an introductory handbook for dramaturgy |
| Author: |
ChemersMichael M, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Carbondale, [IL] |
| Published: |
Southern Illinois University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 211 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Theater in the Americas |
| Subject: |
Drama - Technique - |
| Subject: |
Theater - Production and direction - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780809385713/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index |
| ISBN: |
9780809385713electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0809385716electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780809329526pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0809329522pbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 preliminaryresearch (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 -- Workingwith 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 |