Make Your Show a Success: Teach Yourself (Paperback)

Nicholas Gibbs

ISBN 10: 1444107259 / ISBN 13: 9781444107258

Verlag: John Murray Press, London, 2010

Beschreibung

Paperback. Wherever your theatre interests lies, this is an essential book for you. It covers a wide range of key issues, from tips on coping with first night nerves, to a full section on health and safety, to funding and taxation. Illustrated with handy guides to lighting and staging and containing essential resources, this book will enable you to have a successful show. A practical guide to every aspect of community theatre. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781444107258

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Make Your Show a Success: Teach Yourself (Paperback)
• Verlag: John Murray Press, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1444107259
• ISBN-13: 9781444107258
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Wherever your theatre interests lies, this is an essential book for you. It covers a wide range of key issues, from tips on coping with first night nerves, to a full section on health and safety, to funding and taxation. Illustrated with handy guides to lighting and staging and containing essential resources, this book will enable you to have a successful show.

Make Your Show a Success includes:

Part one: Community theatre: getting involved
Chapter 1: Community theatre
Chapter 2: The actors
Chapter 3: The director
Chapter 4: The stage manager
Chapter 5: The lighting designer/technician
Chapter 6: The sound designer/technician
Chapter 7: The set designer
Chapter 8: Wardrobe
Chapter 9: The props team
Chapter 10: Musical societies
Chapter 11: Festivals

Part two: Community theatre: from registration to rehearsal
Chapter 12: Setting up a new community theatre group
Chapter 13: Budgeting and fundraising
Chapter 14: Getting the boll rolling
Chapter 15: Making the play happen

Part three: Other societies and legal requirements
Chapter 16: Community theatre production companies
Chapter 17: Safety and other legal requirements

Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and added features:

Not got much time?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

Author insights
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

Test yourself
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

Extend your knowledge
Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of amateur theatre.

Five things to remember
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

Try this
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicholas Gibbs is a scriptwriter, BBC-trained script editor and author of Television Drama Writing.