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Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice: Cultivating a Creative Approach
Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice offers theory and methodology for developing a unique stage management style, preparing stage managers to develop an adaptive approach for the vast and varied scope of the production process, forge their own path, and respond to the present moment with care and creativity.
This book provides tactile adaptive strategies, enabling stage managers to navigate diverse populations, venues, and projects. Experiential stories based on extensive experience with world-renowned artists exemplify the practices and provide frameworks for self-reflection, synthesis, and engagement with theory-guided practice. This book empowers stage managers to include the ‘How You’ with ‘How To’ by flexing collaborative muscles and engaging tools to guide any collaborative project to fruition with creativity, curiosity, and the drive to build connections.
Exploring topics such as group dynamics, ethics, culture, conflict resolution, and strategic communication, Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Cultivating a Creative Approach is an essential tool for advanced stage management students, educators, and professionals.
This book provides tactile adaptive strategies, enabling stage managers to navigate diverse populations, venues, and projects. Experiential stories based on extensive experience with world-renowned artists exemplify the practices and provide frameworks for self-reflection, synthesis, and engagement with theory-guided practice. This book empowers stage managers to include the ‘How You’ with ‘How To’ by flexing collaborative muscles and engaging tools to guide any collaborative project to fruition with creativity, curiosity, and the drive to build connections.
Exploring topics such as group dynamics, ethics, culture, conflict resolution, and strategic communication, Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Cultivating a Creative Approach is an essential tool for advanced stage management students, educators, and professionals.
148 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 6, 2019
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March 14, 2024
"We're striving for excellence, not perfectionism."
Read for grad SM class... some parts good, some parts meh, some parts meant for the burgeoning stage manager. I really can't stand the way Porter and Alcorn leave a lingering flavor of celebrity/big budget theatre worship in their writing, but it might be my natural adversity to working on the Broadway stage. I feel that this book could have benefitted from some good ol' fashioned "and you know what? I was wrong about [insert scenario here], and I can admit that." On the other hand, some awesome discussion questions on what our purpose and desire as stage managers should be, good identification of outdated language and really easy swaps that anyone in theatre can make, and a strong push to move with the natural progressive flow of theatre and not against it (as many stage management books are wont to do). We should have more (BIPOC, queer) women in stage management, particularly at the helm of educational leadership and prestigious performances, and I respect Narda and Lisa for the work they've accomplished thus far– I think I'm just forever in search of the SM book that sits well for me.
Read for grad SM class... some parts good, some parts meh, some parts meant for the burgeoning stage manager. I really can't stand the way Porter and Alcorn leave a lingering flavor of celebrity/big budget theatre worship in their writing, but it might be my natural adversity to working on the Broadway stage. I feel that this book could have benefitted from some good ol' fashioned "and you know what? I was wrong about [insert scenario here], and I can admit that." On the other hand, some awesome discussion questions on what our purpose and desire as stage managers should be, good identification of outdated language and really easy swaps that anyone in theatre can make, and a strong push to move with the natural progressive flow of theatre and not against it (as many stage management books are wont to do). We should have more (BIPOC, queer) women in stage management, particularly at the helm of educational leadership and prestigious performances, and I respect Narda and Lisa for the work they've accomplished thus far– I think I'm just forever in search of the SM book that sits well for me.
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