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Preparing for rehearsals. Organising your early responses to the text ; Organising information about each scene ; Investigating the big ideas of the play ; Analysing the action of the play ; Deepening work on character ; Building relationship with your production team ; Selecting actors and testing starting points for rehearsals ; Preparing the rehearsal environment -- Rehearsals. The initial few days of rehearsal ; Building the world of the play ; Working on the scenes of the play -- Getting into the theatre and the public performances. Technical and dress rehearsals ; The public performances -- Context and sources. How I learnt the skills the book describes.

A step-by-step guide to directing for the stage. It provides assistance with various aspects of the varied challenges facing all theatre directors. It addresses topics such as: the ideas that underpin a play's text; preparing improvisations; twelve Golden Rules for working with actors; and, analysing your work after a run has ended.