A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre

A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre - Paperback

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A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre - Paperback

A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre - Paperback

by Anne Bogart
$73.71
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Book Overview

by Anne Bogart (Author)

A Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdom of the courage required to create 'art with great presence'.
Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and potential obstacle to art-making. They are Violence; Memory; Terror; Eroticism; Stereotype; Embarrassment; and Resistance. Each one can be used to generate extraordinary creative energy, if we know how to use it.
A Director Prepares offers every practitioner an extraordinary insight into the creative process. It is a handbook, Bible and manifesto, all in one. No other book on the art of theatre comes even close to offering this much understanding, experience and inspiration.

Author Biography

Anne Bogart is Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is Associate Professor at Columbia University.

Number of Pages: 168
Dimensions: 0.49 x 7.88 x 5.14 IN
Publication Date: May 24, 2001
ISBN9780415238328
Author Anne Bogart
PublisherRoutledge
GenreArts
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2001
LanguageENG- English
Pages168
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Anne Bogart is a theatre and opera director, Co-Artistic Director of the ensemble-based SITI Company, head of the MFA Directing program at Columbia University, and author of five books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book, And Then You Act, Conversations with Anne and What's the Story. For her directing, she has won two Best Director Obie Awards; in 1995, she received the ATHE Career Achievement Award; in 2005 received the American Theatre Wing Award; in 2012 was the recipient of the Richard B. Fisher Award and the Doris Duke Artist Award; and in 2018-19 was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

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