- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: RCR Creative Press; 1 edition (April 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0972425500
- ISBN-13: 978-0972425506
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 12.9 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,576,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
More than the sum of its parts,
By Digital Kati (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Notes on Directing (Hardcover)
- A book by a director whose experience has enabled him to speak with extraordinary clarity about an enterprise which can be extremely difficult to get right: theatre directing. This is beautifully distilled advice.
- Handbooks on directing can be densely written and/or obtuse; the good news is that this one isn't. Its advice is bite-sized, a bunch of notes to consider and apply in the rehearsal room, with room in the margins for your own annotations. - It's handy, therefore, for the vast majority of theatre directors whose busy working lives are such that they don't have time to wade through complex texts. Read this one on the tube or on your coffee break. You can pick it up and put it down twenty times and still follow the plot. Because it's bite-sized, you remember the advice more clearly afterwards too. - The main virtue of this book is that it steers clear of saying stuff that sounds cool but means very little in practice.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The only book on directing you'll ever need,
By happysad "happysad" (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Notes on Directing (Hardcover)
I had the pleasure some years ago of spending a day with the author, chaperoning him to and from a film set to visit one of his proteges. The few hours I spent with him were as insightful as anything I could compare them to - only there is little you can compare them to. The same goes for this book. I started my working life directing theatre before graduating to writing and directing film; Notes On Directing been an indispensible companion on that journey. There's very little that can be taught in drama - anything of any real value has to be learnt the hard way. That said, this book is the closest you'll get to a manual for the dramatist. Simple, concise, irreverent and witty, Frank Hauser's lifetime of experience and personal generosity has been distilled into something that for me is there to refer to in those moments of self-doubt or silence when you need a friend who gets it, who really knows what it's all about. A gentle had on the back and an occasional kick up the rear, Notes On Directing is exactly what it says it is, only the note-taker, alongside Alexander Mackendrick On Film-making and Nicolas Ray I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies(the only other teachers in this field worth listening to on the page, unlike say Mamet who is all mouth and absolutely no trousers), is a world-class director with a poet's economy and a philosopher's insight. There is no conceivable way you could regret buying this book.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must for anybody in theatre,
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This review is from: Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair (Hardcover)
From directors to actors, from producers to writers; this book provides an invaluable insight into the essetial, 'need-to-know' aspects of the world of theatre. I defy anybody not to read it and keep saying to themselves 'how true'. The author captures all those nuggets of knowledge and presents them in a format which can be read from cover to cover, or dipped into as the need arises. Be warned though ... pick it up and you may not be able to put it down!
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