Stage Management: A Gentle Art

by Daniel Bond

This popular book describes in detail a stage manager's job. It provides those just starting out in the profession with a solid grounding in theatre stage management practices and procedures. The disciplines of lighting, set design and sound are discussed but the main focus is the management of these elements and the processes and scheduling that go together to provide effective results.

Chronologically following the production of a play, the book starts with pre-production planning and progresses to opening night. With easy reference checklists and a full glossary, it is the essential guide to stage management.

Genres: Theatre

152 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 1991

Reviews

[Jeff Cliff · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seemingly accurate and thorough description of the process of management as it pertains to plays and the process of putting on a play.

One interesting thing of note: how much it takes for granted copyright as a kind of force of nature, that must be put up with as a significant and primary cost of this particular cultural process. This is definitely a pre-free culture work. How they frame limits on copyright as minimal and exceptional, rather than intrinsic to the right itself, the power of copyright as just something to give in to and kneel to.
It kind of raises the question what would be possible if this significant, recurring and ubiquitous cost were simply not an issue? Who could put on plays, and what kinds of plays could they get away with?

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