The director's craft a handbook for the theatre - Mitchell, Katie (New York Routledge, 2009)
Preparing for rehearsals. Organising your early responses to the text ; Organising information about each scene ; Investigating the big ideas of the play ; Analysing the action of the play ; Deepening work on character ; Building relationship with your production team ; Selecting actors and testing starting points for rehearsals ; Preparing the rehearsal environment -- Rehearsals. The initial few days of rehearsal ; Building the world of the play ; Working on the scenes of the play -- Getting into the theatre and the public performances. Technical and dress rehearsals ; The public performances -- Context and sources. How I learnt the skills the book describes.
Keywords: Theater -- Production and direction -- Handbooks, manuals, etc