"Seventy-five percent of what we do at rehearsal does not enter the performance." - Constantin Stanislavski Susan Letzler Cole's firsthand account of the rehearsal sessions of acclaimed directors and actors offers a view of what is often hidden from the public eye: what actors and directors do when they prepare a dramatic text for performance. Directors in Rehearsal is based on hundreds of hours observing and recording the directorial work process. The author has closely observed prominent directors working with text ranging from Shakespeare and Chekhov to the Wooster Group's recent experiments. The result of her extensive research is a rare behind-the scenes look at 10 theatre directors rehearsing actual productions - Broacdway and off-Broadway, political and experimental, text-centered and company created.
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Dr. Cole has achieved brilliance. The genius of Cole is her ability to act as an alchemist turning words into images placing you within the inner circle of actors and directors and allowing the reader to experience the magical transformation that takes place as the director's art weaves magic. Cole is a national treasure.
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It is almost 7:30 p.m., Sunday evening, October 13, 1985, at La Mama Annex in New York City where Polish writer and director Tadeusz Kantor's Let the Artists Die is about to be performed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ant puppet, full runthrough, directorial gaze, dense violet light, first readthrough, worm puppet, warrior ant, rehearsal exploration, subtext script, first runthrough, artificial amplification, collective witnessing, golden windows, blocking directions, directorial note, rehearsal script, lighting rehearsals, rehearsal work, maternal gaze, blocking rehearsal, playing area, acting choices, audience section, directorial style, theatre piece Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wooster Group, Saint Antony, New York, Abingdon Square, Robert Wilson, The Magician, David Warrilow, Lenny Bruce, Ohio Impromptu, Emily Mann, Peter Sellars, Dan White, Frank Dell's The Temptation, Irene Fornes, Kennedy Center, Peyton Smith, Uncle Vanya, Devil Dance, Joanna Merlin, Lee Breuer, Richard Foreman, The Birth of the Poet, The Performing Garage, Elinor Renfield, John Seitz New!
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It is almost 7:30 p.m., Sunday evening, October 13, 1985, at La Mama Annex in New York City where Polish writer and director Tadeusz Kantor's Let the Artists Die is about to be performed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ant puppet, full runthrough, directorial gaze, dense violet light, first readthrough, worm puppet, warrior ant, rehearsal exploration, subtext script, first runthrough, artificial amplification, collective witnessing, golden windows, blocking directions, directorial note, rehearsal script, lighting rehearsals, rehearsal work, maternal gaze, blocking rehearsal, playing area, acting choices, audience section, directorial style, theatre piece Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wooster Group, Saint Antony, New York, Abingdon Square, Robert Wilson, The Magician, David Warrilow, Lenny Bruce, Ohio Impromptu, Emily Mann, Peter Sellars, Dan White, Frank Dell's The Temptation, Irene Fornes, Kennedy Center, Peyton Smith, Uncle Vanya, Devil Dance, Joanna Merlin, Lee Breuer, Richard Foreman, The Birth of the Poet, The Performing Garage, Elinor Renfield, John Seitz New!
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- Abingdon Square (Green Integer) by Maria Irene Fornes on 22 pages
- The Cherry Orchard by David Mamet on 14 pages
- Uncle Vanya (Oxford Paperbacks) by A.P. Chekhov on 8 pages
- Uncle Vanya by David Mamet on 8 pages
- An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski on 4 pages
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- Playwrights in Rehearsal: The Seduction of Company by Susan Letzler Cole on 4 pages
- Playwrights in Rehearsal: The Seduction of Company (Theatre Arts (Routledge Hardcover)) by Susan Letzler Cole on 4 pages
- The Theater of Maria Irene Fornes (PAJ Books) by Professor Marc Robinson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader by Michael Huxley on page 190, and Back Matter
- 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance by Matthew Goulish in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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