Good organization is the key to successful staging and this handbook is concerned with the detail of staging a production. It concentrates on bringing together the different elements - scenery, costume, props, sound, lighting - to achieve effective and successful staging.

Traces the process of sound design from initial concept through closing night. This book discusses the early evolution of a sound design that supports the play, from researching sources for music and effects to negotiating a contract.

Theatre, Literature and Russian Studies university departments, theatre schools and academies. Theatre practitioners and professionals, Russian theatre enthusiasts.

A guide to various aspects of community theatre. It deals with topics ranging from finding a group to forming one, from funding a show to lighting one, and covering theatre of various kinds for various ages.

In this guide, Peter Maccoy examines the qualities and skills necessary for effective stage management, stressing the importance of understanding both the creative and the technical processes involved in theatre. The advice featured covers such topics as contracts, rehearsals and performance.

In the world of amateur theatre, the role of director is challenging and wide-ranging. You can face problems on any aspect of the production which you will be expected to solve. This book contains all the advice you will need to successfully direct and manage an amateur show.

A unique resource for actors and students from Grotowski's long-time collaborator - the first available statement of the current working practices and theoretical positions of one of the greats of 20th century theatre.

In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of their interviews and discussions, which involved directors such as Peter Brook, Peter Stein, Augusto Boal, Jorge Lavelli and Jonathan Miller.

A practical lighting guide explaining the process of designing lighting for all forms of stage production and describing the equipment used. This sixth edition discusses the latest equipment and its impact on working methods.

An indispensable reference for drama teachers, directors, architects and design professionals. Twelve chapters in three sections: Part 1 -- Tools and Terminology: All of the basics -- the evolution of sources and controls. Part 2 -- Manipulating the Light: Developing the Lighting Key -- source levels and controls. Part 3 -- The Collaborative Process: An anecdotal approach to communicating intent .

Peter Brook is perhaps contemporary theatre's greatest inventor and is one of the most influential directors that Britain has ever produced. Here, Brook describe the gestation and completion of his many works through the spaces they occupied all over the world.

Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Jewish theatres became catalysts for modernist experimentation. From the Jewish mythical and folkloric plays produced at Habima to the daring, expressionistic Yiddish dramas presented at the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre (GOSET), this book chronicles the Soviet Jewish theatre in the 1920s and 1930s.