Directing Shakespeare: A Scholar OnstageOhio University Press, 2004 - Počet stran: 152 An impossible question from a Chinese actor--"Why is Shakespeare eternal?"--drove Sidney Homan after fifty years in the theater to ponder just what makes Shakespeare...well, Shakespeare. The result, Directing Shakespeare, reflects the two worlds in which Homan operates--as a scholar and teacher on campus, and as a director and actor in professional and university theaters. His concern is the entire process, beginning in the lonely period when the director develops a concept, and moving into increasingly larger realms: interaction with stage designers; rehearsals; and performances in which the audience's response further shapes the play. Homan recounts the experience of staging King Lear accompanied by a musical score for piano, violin, and cello played live onstage. He discusses the challenge of making and trying to justify cuts in Hamlet. A casual remark from an actress leads to a feminist production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He describes the delicate collaboration between director and performer as he works with actors preparing for The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and Hamlet. Other chapters treat a set designer's bold red drapes that influenced the director's concept for Julius Caesar, and the cross-influence of back-to-back runs of Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstsern Are Dead and Hamlet. In a highly personal concluding chapter, Homan tells of joyously working with a spontaneous young actor playing Puck and with an audience of unruly teenagers who wept at a performance of Lear. Delightfully written, and filled with practical insights, Directing Shakespeare draws together scholars, critics, and those who work in the theater to bring the written word to life. |
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Bridging the Gap between Text and Performance | |
Acknowledgments | |
Creating Lear Onstage | |
Cutting Shakespeare | |
A Directors Concept for The Comedy of Errors | |
Interacting with the Actors | |
Set Design and Theatrical Presence in Julius Caesar | |
Adapting A Midsummer Nights Dream for the Cast Producer and Theater | |
A Mirror for Staging Hamlet | |
Why Sir Is Shakespeare Eternal? | |
Never Too Young Never Too Old | |
Notes | |
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