Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays - Softcover

David Ball (author)

 
9780809311101: Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0809311100 ISBN 13: 9780809311101
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 1983

Synopsis

Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theatre and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.

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About the Author

David Ball was one of the nation's first theater literary directors when he served under Michael Langham at Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater. He later taught acting, directing, and script analysis at Lawrence, Carnegie Mellon, and Duke Universities. He was the artistic director of Pittsburgh's renowned Metro Theater and the literary director of the Pittsburgh Public Theater. David Ball's plays and adaptations have been frequently staged at professional repertory theaters throughout the United States and in Europe, including most recently his landmark adaptations of Moliere's Tartuffe, The Miser, and The Imaginary Invalid. His former theater and film students hold Oscars, Obies, Tonys, and Emmys, and his own work has been supported by the Ford, McKnight, and Shubert Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Publisher
Southern Illinois University Pr
Publication date
1983
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0809311100
ISBN 13 
9780809311101
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
112