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Title: A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre by Anne Bogart ISBN: 0-415-23832-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Landmark for Theater
Comment: Bogart writes from her years of experience and vision in A Director Prepares. Readers merely looking for a book on "how to direct" may want to look elsewhere: this manifesto takes on serious issues faced by theater artists every day. While other books "on directing" explain how to get actors from point A to point B, A Director Prepares examines the shoulders that theatermakers stand on: artistically, historically, politically. And it's not just for Bogart/SITI Company disciples. Like the creation of theater, A Director Prepares requires heightened attention and a clean slate every time you dive into its pages. It's inspiring, but also a challenge to theater makers to rethink how we approach our processes and to question upon whose shoulders we stand.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Director Does What?
Comment: This book was a requirement for my directing class and I must say it did not help me at all. The title is misleading suggesting that a reader actually gets advice on how to prepare for directing. Instead, readers get Bogart's theory on what theater directing is. The book gives aspiring directors a confidence boost where Bogart basically says, "you can do it, just be persistent and brave." If anyone wants to get a book that gives a better description of what directing entails, the best bet is to get the book, A Sense of Direction, written by William Ball.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring and unpretentious
Comment: Far from being a prescription about how to direct, this book offers the wisdom of Anne Bogart's experience as a collaborator, investigator of the human condition, and artist committed to making theatre that is alive and relevant. I have had the pleasure of knowing and studying with Anne, and this book codified and elaborated on so many of the things I wished I'd written down at the time. The book illuminates her way of working more than it promotes any particular aesthetic, and in that, I think it should be incredibly helpful and informative to all theatre artists at any stage in their careers. Some reference point for Anne's work or the work of her SITI Company might make the more esoteric sounding parts of the book clearer for the reader, but all in all, this is a great read.
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Title: Anne Bogart: Viewpoints (Career Development Series) by Michael Bigelow Dixon, Joel A. Smith ISBN: 1880399806 Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Thinking Like a Director : A Practical Handbook by Michael Bloom ISBN: 0571199941 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 17 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Empty Space : A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate by Peter Brook ISBN: 0684829576 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Moving Body: Teaching Creative Theatre by Jacques Lecoq, David Bradby, Jean-Gabriel Carasso, Jean-Claude Lallias ISBN: 0878301410 Publisher: Theatre Arts Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Directing by William Ball ISBN: 0896760820 Publisher: Drama Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1984 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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