How to Read a Play is an introductory guide to the art of
translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic
mental images; it has been a classic among actors, directors, and
writers for the past twenty years. Now fully updated and revised,
the books devotes a chapter exclusively to screenplays, noting the
intrinsic differences between a screenplay and a playscript and
thus bringing this invaluable classic up to date.
How should we read stage directions? How can we imagine the
theatrical impact of a sound effect? Of silence? What about the
effect of colors, costumes, groupings, relative positions on the
stage? Are characters sometimes saying something different from
what their words say? In the course of answering these and many
more questions, Hayman talks about the use of space, momentum, and
suspense, the silence under the words, identity and character,
irony and ambiguity, meaning and experience -- in short, all the
elements that give life to the printed page as much as a musical
performance does to a printed score. How to Read a Play is an
essential guidebook to the art of drama.
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