[ebooks] Organization Space: Landscapes; Highways; and Houses in America (MIT Press) by Keller Easterling at Arts-Photography

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Flexible and concise; Stage Directing details the seven steps that make up the directing process: selecting a work; analyzing and researching the playscript; conceiving the production; casting; beginning rehearsals; polishing rehearsals; and giving and receiving criticism. Each step is highlighted with valuable directing tips; as well as examples from modern and contemporary playscripts and productions. Exercises; objectives; and key terms put directing precepts to a practical test; revealing what is significant about each phase of the process. Over eighty charts; graphs; and photographs unite to exemplify the text. With a fresh voice and an engaging writing style; Patterson provides insightful questions; suggestions; and illustrations that define and invoke contemplation about the role of the director. Three original short plays provide the opportunity for hands-on analysis and the application of practical concepts. In a final essay; Patterson highlights the function and growing artistry of the director in the modern and postmodern theatre by concisely examining the history of the director.