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PublisherTheatre Communications Group, Incorporated

ISBN-101559361107

ISBN-139781559361101

eBay Product ID (ePID)162830

Product Key Features

Book TitleProduction Notebooks : Theatre in Process, Volume One

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicTheater / History & Criticism, Theater / Direction & Production, Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts

AuthorMark Bly

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15 oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-045987

TitleLeadingThe

Volume NumberVol. 1

SynopsisThe first book of its kind, offerring an inside view of theatre today from the literary manager's point of view., The second volume in the series provides an inside view of the creative process involved in the creation of 4 major theatrical productions. Each notebook offers in diary form comprehensive histories of major artistic elements that are the center of the creative process. This volume includes: "In the Blood" by Suzan-Lori Parks (The Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival); "The First Picture Show" by David and Ain Gordon (Mark Taper Forum and American Conservatory Theatre), "The Geography Project" by Ralph Lemon (Yale Repertory Theatre) and "Shakespeare Rapid Eye Movement, " directed by Robert Lepage (Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel-Munich). Each notebook is profusely illustrated with production shots and/or set and costume renderings. Mark Bly is the Associate Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre., Behind the scenes of many significant U.S. productions today, is the newest member of the creative team-the "dramaturg." Now, for the first time, four of America's finest dramaturgs, under the editorial direction of a fifth, detail their efforts in revealing diary form, offering comprehensive histories of the development of four major productions by outstanding not-for-profit theatres, exploring the dramaturgical, directorial, design, acting and administrative aspects of mounting contemporary and classic plays. The Clytemnestra Project (based on works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) Garland Wright, director; Jim Lewis, dramaturg The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN Danton's Death (by Georg Büchner, translated by Robert Auletta) Robert Wilson, director; Christopher Baker, dramaturg Alley Theatre, Houston, TX The Love Space Demands (by Ntozake Shange, adapted from her poetry) Talvin Wilks, director; Shelby Jiggetts, dramaturg Crossroads Theatre Company, New Brunswick, NJ Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream (based on the film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert) Dominique Serrand, director; Paul Walsh, dramaturg Company created by Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Minneapolis, MN

LC Classification NumberPN2053.P75 1996