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| A Reading List for Students of Theatre The original title of this appendix was to be “Books Every Undergraduate Theatre Student Should Know”, but obviously, even though the listing is stunningly simplified, such a reading task is beyond time allotted to the undergraduate years. The play script recommendations, especially, are slenderized. Nevertheless, it’s a great goal, worthy of pursuit. The bibliography is presented alphabetically by subject area. You will also, of course, make use of SPU's Library resources to expand your knowledge about and experience of theatre. Librarian Liz Gruchala-Gilbert's web page for Theatre Research may be found at
ACTING
Adler, Stella, The Technique of Acting, New York, Bantam Books, 1988. Boleslavsky, Richard, Acting: The First Six Lessons, NY., Theatre Arts Books, 1933. Chekhov, Michael, To the Actor: On the Techniques of Acting, Harper & Row, 1953. Cole, Toby and Helen Crich, Actors on Acting, New York: Crown, 1970. Hagen, Uta, Respect For Acting, New York, Macmillan, 1973. Moore, Sonia, The Sanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor, New York, Penguin, 1978. Stanislavski, Constantin, An Actor Prepares, trans. by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, New York, Theatre Arts Books, 1936. ____________, Building A Character, trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, NY., Theatre Arts Books, 1949. ____________, Creating A Role, trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, NY., Theatre Arts Books, 1961.
COSTUME
Anderson, Barbara and Cletus, Costume Design, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Barton, Lucy, Historic Costume For The Stage, Walter H. Baker, Co., 1963. Dryden, Deborah M., Fabric Painting And Dying For The Theatre, Heinemann, 1993. Cunningham, Rebecca, The Magic Garment, Longman, Inc., 1989. Ingham, Rosemary, The Costumer’s Handbook, Prentice-Hall, 1980. Laver, James, Costume And Fashion, Thames and Hudson, 1985. Pecktal, Lynn, Costume Design, Back Stage Books, 1993. Tortora, Phyllis, Survey Of Historic Costume, 2nd Ed., Fairchild Pub., 1994.
DESIGN
Arnold, Richard L., Scene Technology, 3rd Ed., Prentice-Hall, 1994. Aronson, Arnold, American Set Design, TCG, 1985. Bay, Howard, Stage Design, Drama Book Specialists, 1974. Bellman, Willard. E., Scene Design: A Scenographic Approach, Harper Row, 1983. Burian, Jarka, The Scenography Of Josef Svoboda, Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1971. ____________, The Secret Of Theatrical Space, Applause Theatre Books, 1993. Burris-Meyer, H. and Cole E., Scenery For The Theatre, Little, Brown Co., 1971 Gillette, A. S., Stage Scenery, 3rd Ed., Row, 1981. Gillette, J. Michael, Stage Design And Production, Mayfield Pub., 1987. Goodwin, John, British Theatre Design, St. Martin’s Press, 1989. International Theatre Institute of the United States, Inc. Contemporary Stage Design, Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1974. Izenor, George C., Theatre Design, McGraw-Hill, 1977. ____________, Theatre Technology, McGraw-Hill, 1988. Jones, Robert E., The Dramatic Imagination, Theatre Arts Books, 1941. Mielziner, Jo, Designing For The Theatre, Bramhill House, 1965. Oenslager, Donald, Stage Design, Viking Press, 1975. Parker, Smith, Wolf, Scene Design And Stage Lighting, 6th Ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1990. Payne, Darwin R., Design For The Theatre, South Illinois Univ. Press, 1978. Pecktal, Lynn, Designing And Painting For The Theatre, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. ____________, Designing And Drawing For The Theatre, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1995. Pendleton, Ralph, The Theatre Of Robert Edmond Jones, Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1958. Russell, Douglas A., Period Style For The Theatre, 2nd Ed., Allyn and Bacon, 1987. Simonson, Lee, The Art Of Scenic Design, Harper Row, 1950. Smith, Ron, American Set Design Ii, TCG, 1991. Welker, David, Theatrical Set Design, Allyn Bacon, 1969.
DIRECTING
Artaud, Antonin, The Theatre and Its Double, trans. by Mary C. Richards, NY., Grove Press, 1958. Boal, Augusto, Theater of the Opressed, Theatre Communication Group, 1985. Bradby, David and David Williams, Directors’ Theatre, St. Martin’s Press, 1988. Braun, Edward, The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski, London, Metheun, 1982. Brecht, Bertolt, Brecht on Theatre, trans. by John Willett, NY., Hill and Wang, 1965. Brook, Peter, The Empty Space, NY., Atheneum, 1968. Clurman, Harold, On Directing, NY., Macmillan, 1972. Cole, Toby and Helen Krich Chinoy, eds., Directors on Directing: A Sourcebook of the Modern Theater, Indianapolis, IN., The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1953. Grotowski, Jerzy, Towards a Poor Theatre, NY., Simon & Schuster, 1968. Johnstone, Keith, Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, London, Methuen, 1981. Jowit, Deborah, Time and the Dancing Image, University of California Press, 1988. Meckler, Eva, The New Generation of Acting Teachers, Penguin, 1988. O’Quinn, Jim, American Theatre, Periodical, NY., Theatre Communications Group. Woodbury, Lael J., Mosaic Theatre: The Creative Use of Theatrical Constructs, Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University Press, 1976.
LIGHTING
Gillette, J. Michael, Designing With Light, 2nd Ed., Mayfield Publishing Company, 1989. Lounsbury, Warren C., Theatre Lighting From A To Z, University of Washington Press, 1992. Mumm, Robert C., Photometrics Handbook, Broadway Press, 1992. Palmer, Richard H., The Lighting Art, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1994. Parker, W. Oren, Stage Lighting, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1987. Rosenthall, Jean, The Magic Of Light, Little Brown and Co., 1972. Warfel, William B. The New Handbook Of Stage Lighting Graphics, Drama Book Pub., 1990.
MAKEUP
Baker, Patsy, Wigs And Make-Up, Formal Press, 1993. Baygan, Lee, Make-Up For Theatre, Film And Television, A & C Black, 1982. Buchman, Herman, Stage Makeup, Watson-Guptill Pub., 1989. Corey, Irene, The Face Is A Canvas, Anchorage Press, 1990. ____________, The Mask Of Reality, Anchorage Press, 1968. Corson, Richard, Stage Make-Up, Prentice-Hall, 1992. Savini, Tom, Grand Illusions, Vol. 1, Krylon Co., Date NA.
MOVEMENT
CIRCUS TECHNIQUE: Burgess, Hovey, Circus Techniques: Juggling, Equilibristics, Vaulting, NY., Drama Books Specialists (Publishers), 1976. Finnigan, Dave, The Complete Juggler, NY., Vintage Books, 1987.
MIME: Loeschke, Maravene Sheppard, All About Mime, Englewood Cliffs, NJ., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1982. Shepard, Richmond, Mime: The Technique of Silence, NY., Drama Book Specialists (Publishers), 1971.
STAGE MOVEMENT: Barker, Sarah, The Alexander Technique: The Revolutionary Way to Use your Body For Total Energy, Toronto, Bantam Books, 1978. Barlow, Wilfred, The Alexander Technique, NY., Warner Books Edition, 1973. King, Nancy, Theatre Movement: The Actor and His Space, NY., Drama Books Specialists (Publishers), 1971. Penrod, James, Movement for the Performing Artist, Palo Alto, California, National Press Books, 1974.
PERIOD STYLE: Oxenford, Lyn, Playing Period Plays, Fifth Impression, Chicago, Illinois, Northwest Press Corp., 1974. Schreck, Everett M., Principles and Styles of Acting, Reading, Massachusetts, Addison- Wesley Publishing Company, 1970.
STAGE FIGHTING: Hobbs, William, Stage Combat: “the action to the word”, London, Barrie & Jenkins Ltd., 1980. Marshall, Henry, Stage Swordplay or “So you want to be Errol Flynn?”: A Manual of Dramatic Armed Combat for Actors, Tarrytown, NY., Marymount College, 1977. Martinez, J. D., Combat Mime: A Non-Violent Approach to Stage Violence, Chicago, Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1982.
PLAYWRITING
Catron, Louis, E., Elements of Playwriting, NY., MacMillan, 1993. ____________, Playwriting: Writing, Producing & Selling Your Play, Prospect Heights, Il, Waveland Press, 1990. Cohen, Edward M., Working on a New Play: A Play Development Handbook for Actors, Directors, Designers & Playwrights, NY., Prentice Hall Press, 1988. Cole, Toby, ed., Playwrights on Playwriting, NY., Hill and Wang, 1961. Grebanier, Bernard, Playwriting: How to Write for the Theater, NY., Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1961. Hall, Roger A., Writing Your First Play, Boston, Focal Press, 1991. Pike, Frank and Thomas Dunn, The Playwright’s Handbook: Revised and Updated Edition, NY., Penguin Books USA, Inc., 1985. Seger, Linda, Making a Good Script Great, NY., Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987.
SOUND
Davis and Jones, The Sound Reinforcement Handbook, Hal Leonard, Pub., Date NA. Finelli, Patrick M., Sound For The Stage, Drama Book Pub., Date NA.
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Byrnes, William J., Management And The Arts, Focal Press, 1993. Stagecrafter’s Handbook, 3rd Ed., I. E. Clark Pub., 1994. Stern, Lawrence, Stage Management, 5th Ed., Allyn and Bacon, 1994.
TECH/CONSTRUCTION
Carter, Paul, Backstage Handbook, 3rd Ed., Broadway Press, 1994. Walne, Graham, Effects For The Theatre, Drama Book Pub., 1995. Rose, Rich, Drafting Scenery For Theatre, Film And Television, Betterway Pub., 1990. Sweet, Harvey, Handbook Of Scenery, Properties, And Lighting, Volume One, Tekgod Pub., 1994. Glerum, Jay O., Stage Rigging Handbook, So. Illinois Univ. Press, 1987. Newberry, W. G., Handbook For Riggers, Canada, 1989.
THEORY AND CRITICISM
Bentley, Eric, Ed., The Theory Of The Modern Stage:An Introduction To Modern Theatre And Drama, Middlesex, England, Penguin Books Ltd., 1968. Carlson, Marvin, Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, From the Greeks to the Present, Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Press, 1984. Corrigan, Robert W., ed., Comedy: Meaning and Form, San Francisco, Chandler Publishing Company, 1965. ____________, Tragedy: Feeling and Form, San Francisco, Chandler Publishing Company, 1962? Dukore, Bernard F. Dukore, ed., Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski, NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1974. Langer, Susanne K., Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art Developed From Philosophy in a New Key, NY., Charles Scribner’s Sonns, 1953. Leech, Clifford, Tragedy, London, Methuen, 1969. Schechner, Richard, Performance Theory: Revised and Expanded Edition, NY., Routledge, 1988.
HISTORICAL
Aeschylus THE ORESTEIA. PROMTHEUS BOUND Aristophanes LYSISTRATA. THE BIRDS. Sophocles OEDIPUS REX ANTIGONE THE CLOUDS Euripides HIPPOLYTUS Plautus THE TWIN MENAECHMI Johnson, Ben VOLPONE Marlowe, Christopher DR. FAUSTUS Machiavelli, Niccolo MANDRAGOLA Shakespeare, William A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. TWELFTH NIGHT. AS YOU LIKE IT. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. PART I, HENRY IV. ROMEO AND JULIET. HAMLET. OTHELLO. KING LEAR. THE TEMPEST. Webster, John THE DUCHESS OF MALFI. Goldoni, Carlo THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS Moliere TARTUFFE, (Richard Wilbur trans.) THE MISER. THE MISANTHROPE. SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS, (Richard Wilbur trans.) SCHOOL FOR WIVES, (Richard Wilbur trans.). Congreve, William THE WAY OF THE WORLD Gay, John THE BEGGAR’S OPERA. Goldsmith, Oliver SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER Sheridan, Richard Brinsley THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich THE THREE SISTERS (Stark Young trans.) UNCLE VANYA THE CHERRY ORCHARD. THE SEAGULL Ibsen, Henrik HEDDA GABLER. THE WILD DUCK. A DOLL HOUSE. GHOSTS BRAND WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN Rostand, Edmond CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Michael Hooker trans.) Shaw, George Bernard MAJOR BARBARA CANDIDA ARMS AND THE MAN PYGMALION Strindberg, August THE GHOST SONATA MISS JULIE THE FATHER EASTER Synge, John Millington RIDERS TO THE SEA PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD Wilde, Oscar THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST AN IDEAL HUSBAND
20th CENTURY
Albee, Edward WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Beckett, Samuel WAITING FOR GODOT. Brecht, Bertoldt MOTHER COURAGE. A MAN’S A MAN. CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE. THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN. Churchill, Caryl TOP GIRLS. Coward, Noel PRIVATE LIVES BLITHE SPIRIT Eliot, T. S. THE COCKTAIL PARTY MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL Fry, Christopher A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT THE LADY’S NOT FOR BURNING A SLEEP OF PRISONERS Fugard, Athol MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS THE ROAD TO MECCA Genet, Jean THE MAIDS Gurney, A. R. THE DINING ROOM Howe, Tina PAINTING CHURCHES Inge, William COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA Ionesco, Eugene THE BALD SOPRANO THE CHAIRS Miller, Arthur DEATH OF A SALESMAN THE CRUCIBLE O’Casey, Sean JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK O’Neill, Eugene LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT AH WILDERNESS DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS THE HAIRY APE Pinter, Harold THE BIRTHDAY PARTY. Pirandello, Lugi SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR Shafer, Peter THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN AMADEUS EQUUS Shange, Ntozake FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE Shepard, Sam CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS BURIED CHILD Simon, Neil LOST IN YONKERS GOD’S FAVORITE THE ODD COUPLE Sondheim, Stephen SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET Williams, Tennessee A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. THE GLASS MENAGERIE Wilder, Thornton THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH OUR TOWN Wilson, August THE PIANO LESSON FENCES SEVEN GUITARS Return to Main Appendices Page |
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