DreamWork: A Training for Directors

<p><i>DreamWork: A Training for Directors</i> provides a theoretical basis and a highly detailed practical step-by-step blueprint for developing a directorial concept for a play.</p><p>Directing is a complex multi-staged artistic process which for the most part is a collaborative work of art. The director works with designers composers choreographers and actors to create the performance that is eventually shown to an audience. In this process there is one stage of the director’s work which is uniquely personal and individual: the creation of a directorial concept. This book concentrates on this crucial stage of the director’s work offering a template for the creation of a directorial concept prior to embarking on the collaborative stage of the director’s work. The book follows the process from the choice of the text through a series of clearly documented and structured sets of strategies with attendant examples up to the creation of the director’s version of the original play - the adaptation - that is the starting point for the director’s dialogue with designers composers choreographers and actors.</p><p><i>DreamWork: A Training for Directors</i> is intended for directing students at universities or theatre academies both at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as directors at the beginning of their careers.</p>