Inside the Rehearsal Room
eBook - ePub

Inside the Rehearsal Room

Process, Collaboration and Decision-Making

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Inside the Rehearsal Room

Process, Collaboration and Decision-Making

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. A note on referencing in the text
  9. 1 Prologue
  10. 2 Rehearsals: Historical overview, current challenges and future opportunities
  11. 3 (Pre)rehearsal early decisions
  12. 4 First steps of the rehearsal
  13. 5 The piece grows: Delving deeper in the middle stages
  14. 6 Growing up: Final stages and the emergence of the form
  15. 7 Independence: From technical rehearsal through to the run
  16. 8 Next stages: Industry viewpoints
  17. Coda: A return to the polarities and some Covid-age thinking
  18. References
  19. Index
  20. Copyright Page