Play Directing, 7th Edition

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Directing Is Workingwith Designers

 

 

Exploring Design Solutions

At this point, the assumption is that through your director’s play and style analyses you have a secure grasp of a play in terms of its structure, content and its style—and that you have a compelling point of view about the play and clear ideas about what kind of experience you want the audience to have and what they should take away from the production. We will also assume that from designing the one-act play and from the examination of basic design options in Chapters 17–21, as well as the design process preparation work in Chapter 30, you have begun to think in the languages of visual and aural design, and that you have begun to feel comfortable in dialogue with your peers ...