Performing Arts · Theatre Practice
A topic within Theatre Practice, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
5 works
John Dolman
A manual for the ambitious amateur company arguing that a production is one designed whole — the actors' movement, the setting and the play's rhythm all serving a single visual and dramatic idea — rather than a script simply staged as written.
link failing as of 17 Sept 2026National Theatre
Argues that theatre sound is dramaturgy rather than decoration: what the audience hears establishes place and time that the set cannot, and must survive a live room every night.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Charlie Mitchell
Introduces theatre as a set of interlocking crafts rather than a literary form, arguing that a production's meaning is built jointly by actor, director, and scenic, costume and lighting designers, so that reading a play well means understanding the decisions each of them must make.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Royal Shakespeare Company
Argues that Shakespeare's metre is a set of instructions to the actor rather than decoration, because where the stress falls and where the line breaks tell you what the character is doing.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Royal Shakespeare Company
Shows that Shakespeare's switches between prose and verse track status, sanity and intimacy, so the choice of form is itself a piece of characterisation.
link checked 17 Sept 2026