Ok, not really John’s personal bookshelf, but we do have a selection of great books on technical theatre IN STOCK in our Grand Rapids location. We have a limited supply, but we are set up as distributors for Focal Press and get great deals!
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Changing Direction: A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre
by Lenore DeKoven
The approach presented in this book, honed after years of on-set experience and from teaching at UCLA, NYU, and Columbia, and endorsed by many in the industry, including director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and producer/actor Edward Asner, aims to provide a helpful reference and resource for directors and actors alike. It combines underlying theory with dozens of exercises designed to reveal the actor’s craft. There is material on constructing the throughline, analyzing the script, character needs; the casting and rehearsal processes, film vs. theater procedures as well as the actor and the camera.
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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers
3rd ed.
By James Thomas
Based on the premise that plays should be objects of study in and of themselves, Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers teaches an established system of classifications that examines the written part of a play. This fourth edition will include in-depth analysis of unconventional plays, which are more frequent on amateur and professional stages. These plays present unique analytical challenges that the author teaches you the unusual ways in which the subject matter operates in unconventional plays.
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre
The Technical Brief Collection Volume 1
By Ben Sammler and Don Harvey
The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical problems so that fellow theatre technicians can avoid having to reinvent the wheel with each new challenge. The range of topics includes scenery, props, painting, electrics, sound, and costumes. The articles each describe an approach, device, or technique that has been tested on stage or in a shop by students and professionals.
Some articles included: Growing Flowers on Stage; Break-Away Glass; Photo-Murals for the Stage; Quiet Wire-Rope Curtain Track; Free Standing Curved Stairs; A Measured Approach to Kerfing; A Low-Voltage Remote Controller for Special Effects; Toggle-Clamp Locks; Comparing Four Plastics as Scenery Glides; Low Pressure Air Casters; A Simple Lift Jack; Using a Piano to Create a Reverberation Effect; Horn-Hat Mics for Sound Reinforcement.
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre
The Technical Brief Collection Volume 2
By Ben Sammler and Don Harvey
The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical problems so that fellow theatre technicians can avoid having to reinvent the wheel with each new challenge. The range of topics includes scenery, props, painting, electrics, sound, and costumes. The articles each describe an approach, device, or technique that has been tested on stage or in a shop by students and professionals.
Some articles included are:
Building Authentic Elizabethan Ruffs; Simple and Inexpensive Stained Glass; A Quick-Load Floor Pulley Design; A Simple Approach to Stretching Drops; Flexi-Pitch Escape Stairs; Spot-Welding Scrim with Sobo; Handrail Armatures for a Grand Staircase; The Triscuit-Studwall Deck System; A Frameless Turntable; Stand on Stage: Minimum Weight, Maximum Effect; A Self-Paging Cable Tray; Roller Chain Turntable Drives; A Bench-Built XLR Cable Tester.
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Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, Broadcast, and Entertainment – 1st Edition
By Richard Cadena
This book covers everything you should know as a lighting professional about automated lighting in easy-to-understand language–including how they work, how to use them, and special design issues to consider in order to keep abreast in a highly competitive environment where knowledge is crucial to your success.
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Photometrics Handbook (Paperback)
By Robert C. Mumm
Dozens of newly manufactured lighting instruments, and many old ones not included in the first edition, bring this second edition up to date. Photometric data-beam angles, field angles, foot candles and beam diameters at various throw distances, etc.-on over 500 theatrical lighting instruments make this an indispensable reference for lighting designers and electricians.
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Mechanical Design for the Stage
By Alan Hendrickson
Mechanical Design for the Stage will be a reference for you that will:
* provide the basic engineering formulas needed to predict the forces, torques, speeds, and power required by a given move
* give a technician a design process to follow which will direct their work from general concepts to specific detail as a design evolves, and
* show many examples of traditional stage machinery designs.
The book’s emphasis will be on following standard engineering design and construction practices, and developing machines that are functional, efficient to build, easily maintained, and safe to use.
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Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, 1st Edition
by John Holloway
The Illustrated Theatre Production Guide takes a step-by-step approach to the most common and popular theatre production practices, covering important issues related to the construction of wooden, fabric, plastic, and metal scenery used on the stage. This book examines theatres and their equipment, tools and materials, and scenery construction, as well as the principles of electricity and implementation of a lighting design.
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BACKSTAGE HANDBOOK: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information,
Third Edition
By Paul Carter
The third edition updates this popular reference book with new terminology and materials, and adds dozens of new illustrations of grip hardware, film lighting equipment and painting tools. Backstage Handbook includes chapters on Tools, Hardware, Materials, Electrics, Shop Math, Architecture and Theatre. There are hundreds of illustrations, tables and charts which cover everything from the stock sizes and specs of wood screws, to safe working loads for several kinds of rope, to illustrations of twenty-two types of standard lamp bases.
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Stage Rigging Handbook, Third Edition
By Jay O. Glerum M.A. B.A.
Succinct and jargon free, Stage Rigging Handbook remains the only book in any language that covers the design, operation, and maintenance of stage-rigging equipment. It is written in an at-a-glance outline form, yet contains in-depth information available nowhere else.
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BACKSTAGE FORMS By Paul Carter
Over 100 examples of backstage paperwork ready for photocopying–forms like hanging schedules, costume fitting sheets, lighting circuit schedules, prop pre-set lists, sound cues, to name only a few.
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Scenic Art for the Theatre, Second Edition
History, Tools, and Techniques
By Susan Crabtree and Peter Beudert
This new full color edition is significantly up-dated to new interviews with "old masters" and successful "divas" of the industry, up-dated safety tips, and additional insights into the business of scenic design. Expanded to include a new chapter dedicated to painting techniques, the book will now feature detailed step-by-step descriptions of common two-dimensional painting techniques. Wood graining, marble and stone, and brick painting are few examples of the new techniques to be covered.
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(616) 451-9245 |
(800) 466-9245 |
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(608) 280-0985 |
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