Getting directions : a fly-on-the-wall guide for emerging theatre directors /

The theatre rehearsal room is a sacred place. What goes on there is mysterious, alchemical and closely guarded. Russ Hope gives us the benefit of fly-on-the-wall access to eight rehearsal rooms. He has shadowed some of the UK's most exciting young directors at each step of the way, on productio...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hope, Russ
Other Authors: Cooke, Dominic
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Nick Hern Books, 2012.
Series:A Nick Hern book
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : on a lighting gantry
  • Matthew Dunster : Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
  • Steve Marmion : Dick Whittington and his cat by Joel Horwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Steve Marmion
  • Natalie Abrahami : A midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare
  • Nikolai Foster : Great expectations by Tanika Gupta after Charles Dickens
  • Carrie Cracknell : Electra by Nick Payne after Sophocles
  • Joe Hill-Gibbins : The glass menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • OperaUpClose : Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte
  • Action Hero : Frontman by Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse
  • Epilogue : asking better questions.