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The Production Notebooks
The Production Notebooks
$18.95
The Production Notebooks, Volume 2
The Production Notebooks, Volume 2
$18.95

The Production Notebooks

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Behind the scenes of many significant U.S. productions today, is the newest member of the creative team—the "dramaturg." Now, for the first time, four of America's finest dramaturgs, under the editorial direction of a fifth, detail their efforts in revealing diary form, offering comprehensive histories of the development of four major productions by outstanding not-for-profit theatres, exploring the dramaturgical, directorial, design, acting and administrative aspects of mounting contemporary and classic plays.


The Clytemnestra Project

(based on works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides)

Garland Wright, director; Jim Lewis, dramaturg

The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN


Danton's Death

(by Georg Büchner, translated by Robert Auletta)

Robert Wilson, director; Christopher Baker, dramaturg

Alley Theatre, Houston, TX


The Love Space Demands

(by Ntozake Shange, adapted from her poetry)

Talvin Wilks, director; Shelby Jiggetts, dramaturg

Crossroads Theatre Company, New Brunswick, NJ


Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream

(based on the film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert)

Dominique Serrand, director; Paul Walsh, dramaturg

Company created by Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Minneapolis, MN

The Production Notebooks

The Production Notebooks, Volume 2

$18.95 Save $-18.95
The second volume in the series provides an inside view of the creative process involved in the creation of 4 major theatrical productions. Each notebook offers in diary form comprehensive histories of major artistic elements that are the center of the creative process. This volume includes: In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (The Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival); The First Picture Show by David and Ain Gordon (Mark Taper Forum and American Conservatory Theatre), The Geography Project by Ralph Lemon (Yale Repertory Theatre) and Shakespeare Rapid Eye Movement, directed by Robert Lepage (Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel-Munich). Each notebook is profusely illustrated with production shots and/or set and costume renderings.

Mark Bly is the Associate Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre.
The Production Notebooks, Volume 2