Inside the Rehearsal Room: Process, Collaboration and Decision-Making

Awards:   Short-listed for STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 2023 (UK)
Author:   Robert Marsden (Staffordshire University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781350103658


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Inside the Rehearsal Room: Process, Collaboration and Decision-Making


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Awards

  • Short-listed for STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 2023 (UK)

Overview

Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 With an exclusive focus on text-based theatre-making, Inside the Rehearsal Room is both an instructional and conceptual examination of the rehearsal process. Drawing on professional practice and underpinned by theory, this book moves through each stage of rehearsals, considering the inter-connectivity between the actor, director, designers and the backstage team, and how the cumulative effect of the weeks in rehearsal influences the final production. The text also includes: - Auto-ethnographic and fully ethno-graphic case study approaches to different rehearsal rooms - Interviews with directors, actors, designers and actor trainers - A consideration of the ethics of the rehearsal room and material selected for production - Practical exercises on how to creatively read a text from an acting and directing perspective Informed by over 20 years of directing experience in the UK and Europe, Robert Marsden's book offers a practical guide that ultimately demystifies the rehearsal process and challenges how the rehearsal room should be run in the twenty-first century.

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Author:   Robert Marsden (Staffordshire University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781350103658


ISBN 10:   1350103659
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Rehearsal Process – An Historical Overview and Current Challenges and Opportunities 3. Documenting the Process – How have rehearsals been captured by directors, actors and academics. 4. Pre-rehearsal: Early Decisions. 5. The Rehearsal Room: First Steps. 6. The Rehearsal Room: Delving Deeper 7. The Rehearsal Room: Final Stages and the Emergence of the ‘Form’ 8. Technical and Dress: A Unification. 9. Previews and the Production Run: Choices and Impact of a ‘Live’ Medium. 10. Next Stages: How Should Rehearsal Rooms Operate in the 21st Century?

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Robert Marsden is Head of the Department of Media and Performance at Staffordshire University, where he is also an Associate Professor in Acting and Directing. He is a Fellow in Creative Teaching and Learning and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. When he is not teaching, Robert is a busy freelance theatre director, and has worked in commercial and subsidised sectors across the UK and Europe since 1999. Robert’s research includes British pantomime and rehearsal studies.

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