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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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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
  • Dramaturges
  • Drama > Editing
  • Theater > Production and direction
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
text
still 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
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