{"product_id":"a-beginners-guide-to-directing-theatre-9781350370517","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Directing Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn accessible guide to the theatre directing process of text-based theatre, from the choice of the play through to an encounter with an audience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from how to choose a play to the opening night, \u003ci\u003eA Beginner's Guide to Directing Theatre \u003c\/i\u003etakes the reader, via a step-by-step approach, through various techniques, practitioners, methodologies and exercises that could be applied to text-based theatre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough doing so, the reader comes to understand: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The differences between directing (the approach) and the director (the role), how that crosses over and ways to navigate this\u003cbr\u003e- A range of practices, methodologies and techniques for the differing and diverse styles, genres, playwrights and movements. i.e. the 'what' of directing\u003cbr\u003e- How to create inclusive, safe and diverse practices of casting and rehearsal methods \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy not providing one single methodology, but introducing readers to various methods, the author garners an understanding of how different plays, genres, styles and movements require their own approaches to reach opening night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhilst not concentrating on devised or non-text based theatre, the book makes explicit how devising, experiential and improvisatory techniques can be embraced to inform the types of methodologies a director may embrace whilst approaching text-based work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom here, readers will be able to know which practitioners and directing methodologies they may wish to employ and will understand where to head next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Marsden\u003c\/b\u003e is an experienced theatre director and theatre academic, currently Head of the Media and Performance Department at Staffordshire University, UK. As a director, he has worked across subsidised and commercial sectors since 1999 and has taught directing, acting and theatre making in universities and drama schools since 2001. He has published articles in journals as well as in trade papers from The Stage to \u003ci\u003eDrama and Theatre \u003c\/i\u003emagazine amongst others, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eInside the Rehearsal Room\u003c\/i\u003e (Methuen Drama, 2022).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615527797010,"sku":"9781350370517","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86ede1d0-e4a7-4b04-b071-563709a41504.jpg?v=1758101245","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-beginners-guide-to-directing-theatre-9781350370517","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}