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DIRECTING SHAKESPEARE
SCHOLAR ONSTAGE |
| By: |
Sidney Homan |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0821415506 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780821415504 |
| Publisher: |
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 February, 2004 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
The question - "Why is Shakespeare eternal?" - drove Sidney Homan after 50 years in the theatre 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 theatres. |
| Synopsis: |
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 designer; rehearsal; and public 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 Rozencrantz and Guildentsern 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 to bring the written word to life. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Ohio University Press |
| Returns: |
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