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Cutting plays for performance : a practical and accessible guide
- Title
- Cutting plays for performance : a practical and accessible guide / Toby Malone and Aili Huber.
- Author
- Malone, Toby
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Huber, Aili
- Description
- xii, 148 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm
- Summary
- Cutting Plays for Performance offers a practical guide for cutting a wide variety of classical and modern plays. This essential text offers insight into the various reasons for cutting, methods to serve different purposes (time, audience, story), and suggestions ways of communicating cuts to a production team. Dealing with every aspect of the editing process, it covers structural issues, such as plot beats, rhetorical concepts, and legal considerations, why and when to cut, how to cut with a particular goal in mind such as time constraints, audience and storytelling, and ways of communicating cuts to a production team. A set of practical worksheets to assist with the planning ans execution of cuts, as well as step-by-step examples of the process from beginning to end in particular plays help to round out the full range of skills and techniques that are required when approaching this key theatre-making task. This is the first systematic guide for those who need to cut play texts. Directors, dramaturgs, and teachers at every level from students to seasoned professionals will find this an indispensable tool throughout their careers.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-144) and index.
- Call Number
- MWET 22-1057
- ISBN
- 9780367748920
- 0367748924
- 9780367748883
- 0367748886
- OCLC
- 1276787525
- Author
- Malone, Toby, author.
- Title
- Cutting plays for performance : a practical and accessible guide / Toby Malone and Aili Huber.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-144) and index.
- Added Author
- Huber, Aili, author.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781000488517
- Research Call Number
- MWET 22-1057