How to Read a Play, the Key to Directing with Confidence
They say the first step is the hardest. This holds true in life and theatre. Directors can struggle with deciding how to interpret a play and breathe life into the work. How to Read a Play: Script Analysis for Directors by Damon Kiely provides the necessary strategies to confidently assess any play. This book provides a broad range of tools and methods that can be used when reading a text, including: · Lessons from the past. What can we learn from Aristotle, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Vakhtangov, Brecht and Harold Clurman? This section establishes the models and methods that underpin