num_pages: 400
description: Play Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from "calling the plays" to orchestrating and blending a symphony of actors and elements. The author emphasizes that the role of the director is not as a dictator, but as a leader of multiple craftsmen who look to the director for ideas that will give impetus to their fullest, most creative expressions. The text emphasizes that directing is not a finite and specific "system" of production, but rather is a venue for providing an intensive look at the structure of plays, of acting and actor-ownership, and of all the other crafts that together make a produced play.
language: English
title: Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style
titlecomplete: Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style (6th Edition)
genres: Theatre, Nonfiction, Reference, Textbooks
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon