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A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre – by Anne Bogart

A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre by Anne Bogart

Bogart (directing, Columbia Univ.) is the artistic director of the SITI Company, an ensemble-based theater company that she founded with Tadshi Suzuki. Her book is aimed at the practitioner but has value for the avid theater goer as well. What we see on stage, as a whole, is a culmination of bits and pieces, steps forward and backward, as a work of "art" is created and then presented. In each essay, Bogart discusses one of seven concepts violence, memory, terror, eroticism, stereotype, embarrassment, and resistance that can work as an obstruction or catalyst to this creative process. The concepts themselves are thought-provoking, and Bogart's text is even more so. For Bogart, these concepts incite energy (positive or negative) that both actors and director absorb and radiate. One suspects that the energy acts on the viewer (and reader) as well. A quote by Jeanette Winterson on the first page clearly illustrates Bogart's passion and love of the theater experience: "Art is the burning bush that both shelters and makes visible our profounder longings." For all theater collections.


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A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre on HardcoverA Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre on PaperbackA Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre on Kindle

Publisher: Routledge

Released: 2001

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