Art and Craft of Stage Management

ISBN: 9780155030237
Title: Art and Craft of Stage Management
Author: Schneider, Doris
Price: $167.95

Reflecting not only the author's theories and experience but the prior input of dozens of other stage managers, fight choreographers, pyrotechnicians, and directors, this text is a long-overdue introduction to the art of stage managing. It provides the guidelines and instructions needed by a beginning stage manager and provides 40 forms to help organize time and activities as well as a notation system to minimize difficulty with blocking and to make blocking notes more readable.

CONTENTS
1. The Art of Stage Management.
2. The Craft: Nuts-and-Bolts.
3. The Production Book Format and Forms.
4. Notating Stage Movement.
5. Stage Managing Stage Combat.
6. Stage Managing Musical Performances.
7. Health and Safety Guides.
8. Stage Management as a Career Choice.

Epilogue.
Appendixes.
Stage Managers' Kit.
Technical Lettering.
Company Rules.
Taping the Ground Plan.
Setting up Prop Tables and Spiking Props and Scenery.
Numbering and Calling Cues.
Glossary.

Publisher: Cengage Learning
Publication date: 02/08/1996
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Indent (6-8 weeks)