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Preparing for Rehearsal Approaching the Dramatic Text – One Step at a Time

332 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

332 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

332 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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A resource for actors, directors, and writers (both professional and in training), this is a step-by-step, practical guidebook to the pre-rehearsal analysis of a script. Its aim is to de-mystify and organise the questions necessary to ask in order to prepare for a creative, imaginative and fruitful exploration of a dramatic text in the journey towards rehearsal. The language is... Read more

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The text

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Why write this book?

PART I: THE WHAT

1. The actor’s process (or lack of it).

2. Reading number 1: Let the play speak.

3. Research: getting to know you. Context of the play.

4. Reading number 2: What’s the story? The essential narrative action.

5. Reading number 3: The archaeology of the character.

6. Reading number 4: What’s my story? What is my character’s essential narrative action?

PART II: THE WHY