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How to read a play / Ronald Hayman.

By: Hayman, Ronald, 1932-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Grove Press, 1999Edition: Rev. and updated ed.Description: 113 p. ; 21 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 080213629X.Subject(s): Drama -- Study and teaching | ReadingDDC classification: 808.2
Contents:
The reader and the medium -- Sound effects -- Momentum and suspense -- Not by words alone -- Costume and identity -- Identity and character -- Irony and ambiguity -- Mental theater -- Meaning and experience -- Photogenic action -- Play-reading as a pleasure.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 808.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00175364
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 book 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.

Includes bibliographical references.

The reader and the medium -- Sound effects -- Momentum and suspense -- Not by words alone -- Costume and identity -- Identity and character -- Irony and ambiguity -- Mental theater -- Meaning and experience -- Photogenic action -- Play-reading as a pleasure.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ronald Hayman was born in Bournemouth and grew up in a hotel there. After studying English at St Paul's and Trinity Hall in Cambridge, Hayman went to drama school in London. While there, he began working as an actor in repertory theatre and in television.

Hayman's first play, The End of an Uncle, was produced in 1959. In 1967, after directing plays by Genet, Goldoni, and Brecht at the Arts Theatre, Stratford East and Welwyn Garden City, Hayman started writing books and broadcasting. Then, in his book Hitler and Geli, Hayman explored the remarkable, yet relatively obscure, story of the affair between Adolf Hitler and his young niece Geli Raubal, who died under mysterious circumstances. Some of Hayman's other works include exposes on Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller, and biographies of Sylvia Plath, Jean-Paul Sartre, the Marquis de Sade, and Tennessee Williams.

(Bowker Author Biography)