[PDF.33wy] Mis-directing the Play: An Argument Against Contemporary Theatre

Mis-directing the Play: An Argument Against Contemporary Theatre

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| a must|By backstage reader|As an actor who has suffered through the idiocy of some directors' "concepts," an audience member who has winced at
the willful misunderstanding of the text in some productions, and a director who tries very hard to direct the text, I loved this book.
McCabe doesn't say it's bad to have a concept for a play--he rails against directors who di|From Library Journal|This slim volume is a director's manifesto. It is not against contemporary theater or imaginative productions, but it is against directing as an occasion for making personal statements at the expense of the text. For McCabe, an award-winn

Terry McCabe, himself an accomplished stage director and teacher of theatre arts, here attacks what he calls the growing decadence that plagues contemporary stage directing. He argues for a radical reorganization of the director's view of his role. It has become an article of faith in the theatre, Mr. McCabe observes, that a play is about what the director chooses to have it be about. But what right does a director have to treat a play as a found object, to be reshaped t...

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