Moment Work
Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 17, 2018
A detailed guide to the collaborative method developed by the acclaimed creators of The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency--destined to become a classic.
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- Who it’s for
- Tectonic Theater Project lays out its devising method and chronicles how it wrote several best-known works.
- Themes
- Collaborative theater-making, Devising theater, Theatrical creation
- Genres
- Theater Production & Direction, Playwriting, Acting
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A detailed guide to the collaborative method developed by the acclaimed creators of The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency--destined to become a classic. A Vintage Original. By Moisés Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams with Leigh Fondakowski, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Kelli Simpkins, Jimmy Maize, and Scott Barrow. For more than two decades, the members of Tectonic Theater Project have been rigorously experimenting with the process of theatrical creation.
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Here they set forth a detailed manual of their devising method and a thorough chronicle of how they wrote some of their best-known works. This book is for all theater artists—actors, writers, designers, and directors—who wish to create work that embraces the unbridled potential of the stage.
Tectonic’s Devising Method
Tectonic Theater Project lays out its devising method and chronicles how it wrote several best-known works.
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- A detailed manual of Tectonic Theater Project’s devising method
- A chronicle of how the group wrote some of its best-known works
Expect
- A collaborative process developed over more than two decades
- Guidance addressed to actors, writers, designers, and directors
Where it sits
| Playwriting | 66% |
|---|---|
| Theater Production & Direction | 52% |
| Acting | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Theater History & Criticism
- Playwriting
- Stagecraft
- Authors
- Moises Kaufman, Barbara Pitts McAdams
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- April 17, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Collaborative theater-making · Devising theater · Theatrical creation
- Reading lane
- Theater History & Criticism