A hands-on guide to directing plays. Stephen Unwin takes a step-by-step approach, covering: choosing the play; casting; design; rehearsal (establishing facts, improvisation, language, character, blocking, using specialists); running the play; putting it on the stage; and finally, opening night!
Stephen Unwin founded the English Touring Theatre in 1993.
Stephen Unwin founded English Touring Theatre in 1993.
A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays--by one of Britain's leading theatre directors.
As artistic director of English Touring Theatre ("the company of the moment"-Daily Mail), Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of venues. In this book, he takes readers step-by-step through choosing the play, casting, design, rehearsal, running the play, putting it on stage and on to opening night.
As artistic director of English Touring Theatre ("the company of the moment"- Daily Mail), Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of venues. In this book, he takes readers step-by-step through choosing the play, casting, design, rehearsal, running the play, putting it on stage and on to opening night.
As artistic director of English Touring Theatre (??he company of the moment?? Daily Mail), Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of venues. In this book, he takes readers step-by-step through choosing the play, casting, design, rehearsal, running the play, putting it on stage and on to opening night.
A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays--by one of Britain's leading theatre directors.
Stephen Unwin, Artistic Director of English Touring Theatre, is an extremely experienced, award-winning director especially of the classics - and has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of venues. As he says: Directing plays is difficult and the aim of this book is to lay out what skills are needed, and to give some sense of how they might be developed. The emphasis is on the professional theatre, but the book is useful for directors in other contexts - amateur dramatics, university drama, school plays and so on. Directing is directing, wherever you do it.