San Antonio College Library

"Stage Directing -- A Practical Guide demystifies the art of directing for the stage. Offering detailed advice on every aspect of the process, it explores the ways in which a carefully orchestrated performance can be made to appear fresh and spontaneous. It shows how the ties between play, performers and audience can be strengthened, and how the strategic intervention of the director can help to produce the most polished and elegant performance. Written...

Despite the popular myth that plays arrive at the theatre fully formed and ready for production, the truth is that for centuries, most scripts have been developed through a collaborative process in rehearsal and in concert with other theatre artists. David Kahn and Donna Breed provide the first codified approach to this time-honored method of play development, with a flexible methodology that takes into account differing environments and various stages...

"Mis-directing the Play advocates the role of the director as collaborator with actors, designers, dramaturges, and play-wrights. Throughout, Mr. McCabe's focus is on shedding the counterproductive myth of the director as creative auteur and urging in its place a return to first principles: the idea of the director as the interpretive artist in charge of putting the playwright's play onstage."--Jacket.