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Introduction
Part One: PREPARING FOR REHEARSALS
Chapter One: Organising your early responses to the text
? Using lists of facts and questions
? Organising information about what exists before the action of the play begins
? Research
? Answering difficult questions about the text
? Place
? Character biographies
Chapter Two: Organising information about each scene
? Immediate circumstances
? What happens between scenes or acts
? Time
Chapter Three Investigating the big ideas of the play
? The writer and the play
? The ideas that underpin the text
? The genre or style of the play
Chapter Four: Analysing the action of the play
? Giving a name to each act or scene
? Events
? Intentions
? Getting the text ready for the actors
Chapter Five: Deepening work on character
? Characters? thoughts about themselves
? Relationships
? Preparing improvisations
? A checklist of all the work you have prepared so far
Chapter Six: Building relationships with your production team
? Design
? Lighting
? Sound
? Music
? Video
? Voice
? Movement
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Chapter Seven: Selecting actors and testing starting points for rehearsals
? Casting
? Workshops
Chapter Eight: Preparing the rehearsal environment
? Working with stage management
? Selection of rehearsal rooms
? Establishing communication structures
? Getting the rehearsal room ready
Part Two: REHEARSALS
Chapter Nine: The initial few days of rehearsals
? Organising your thoughts about actors
? Twelve golden rules for working with actors
? Establishing the language of your process
? How to give feedback to actors about their work
? How to sit in the rehearsal room
? The first day of rehearsals
? Introducing the text to the actors
? The model showing
? Introducing sound, costumes, props, furniture, lights and scenic elements to rehearsals
Chapter Ten: Building the world of the play
? How to divide up the rehearsal day
? Introducing facts and questions
? Research
? Place
? The writer and the genre
? Practical work on ideas
? Practical work on emotions
? Character biographies
? First practical work on character and character tempo
? Relationships
? How to set up improvisations with the actors
? How to use visualisation exercises
? How to do all these things if you have a short rehearsal period
Chapter Eleven: Working on the scenes of the play
? Analysing the action of the play with the actors
? The mark- up
? Improvising the trigger event and immediate circumstances
? How to structure the rehearsal day
? Rehearsing a scene for the first time
? ?Blocking? or making the action clear for the audience
? The second and third rehearsal of a scene
? Run-throughs
? The final days in a rehearsal room
? Working on sound, lighting, design and music during rehearsals
? Preparing your thinking about the audience
? How to do all this if you have a short rehearsal period
Part Three: GETTING INTO THE THEATRE AND THE PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
Chapter Twelve: Technical and dress rehearsals
? The schedule for getting into the theatre and technical rehearsals
? How to manage the transition from the rehearsal room to the theatre
? How to work with your creative team during technical rehearsals
? Lighting plotting sessions
? Sound and music sessions before the technical rehearsal begins
? Technical rehearsals
? The dress rehearsal
Chapter Thirteen: The public performances
? The first few public performances
? Notes after shows
? Rehearsals during your first few public performances
? Press night
? The run of performances from after the press night until the last night
? Analysing your work after the run has ended
Part Four: CONTEXT AND SOURCES
Chapter Fourteen: How I learnt the skills the book describes
? Stanislavsky
? Practical experience of Stanislavsky?s legacy in Russia
? Lev Dodin teaches directing
? Research into the biology of emotions in the UK
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