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Full Description
Every theater director will oversee a new play process in their career: here is what to expect and how to prepare.
Drawing from over 20 years of experience as a freelance director, and as the Artistic Director of LCT3 at Lincoln Center Theater, Evan Cabnet combines the creative with the pragmatic to provide an honest, useful, and entertaining look at the art of directing a new play.
Integrating practical advice with personal experience, Directing New Plays demystifies the process of directing a new work. From developing a creative vision to navigating the challenges of collaborative art-making, this book offers a comprehensive look at the director's role in the process and the tools they use at every step,
including development (readings and workshops), pre-production (casting and design), rehearsal (staging, working with actors, rewrites, and run-throughs), tech, previews, and opening a world premiere production. Incisive, supportive, and clear, this book is an indispensable resource for theater directors looking to begin— or to sustain— a career in new play development.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Beginnings
Chapter 1: What Does a Director Do, and How Do They Do It?
Chapter 2: Finding and Reading a Text
Chapter 3: Meeting with a Writer
Part 2: Development
Chapter 4: Readings
Chapter 5: Workshops
Chapter 6: Getting the Play Produced
Part 3: Pre-Production
Chapter 7: Assembling the Creative Team
Chapter 8: Casting
Chapter 9: The Design Process
Chapter 20: The Producing Organization and Production Meetings
Part 4: Rehearsal
Chapter 11: The First Rehearsal
Chapter 12: Tablework
Chapter 13: Building a Rough Draft
Chapter 14: Preparing and Organizing a Rehearsal Day
Chapter 15: Actors
Chapter 16: The Stumble-Through and The Next Draft
Chapter 17: Rewrites
Chapter 18: Run-Throughs
Part 5: The Space
Chapter 19: Preparing for Tech
Chapter 20: Tech
Chapter 21: Dress Rehearsal
Part 6: The Audience
Chapter 22: Previews
Chapter 23: Preview Rehearsals
Chapter 24: Final Previews and Freezing a Production
Chapter 25: Opening, The Run, and Closing
Conclusion
