Fundamentals of Directing - Softcover

Ric Knowles; Patricia Flood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770914706 ISBN 13: 9781770914704

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press/Nick Hern Books, 2015

Synopsis

A guide for aspiring directors in the professional world, that also applies broadly to academic theatre and community theatre.

Concise and practical, Fundamentals of Directing is a distillation of Ric Knowles's twenty-five years of experience as a director, teacher of directing, and dramaturge. Organized to reproduce the chronology of a play's rehearsal, the book moves through the various stages of the directorial process, from selecting a project through auditioning; working with designers, actors, and technicians; to coordinating the work of the full company through tech week to closing night. It also, and uniquely, includes important appendices on the work of directors in devised theatre and new-play development.

About this title

About the Author

Ric Knowles is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph in Canada, editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and past editor of Modern Drama (1999–2005). He is author of The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre, co-author (with the Cultural Memory Group) of Remembering Women Murdered by Men, editor of Theatre in Atlantic Canada, Judith Thompson, and The Masks of Judith Thompson, and co-editor (with Joanne Tompkins and W.B. Worthen) of Modern Drama: Defining the Field. He is General Editor of the book series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press/Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1770914706
• ISBN 13: 9781770914704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192