Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on how playwrights have written stage directions that engage readers, production team members, and scholars in a process of embodied creation in order to determine meaning. Bess Rowen calls the products of this method ‘affective stage directions’ because they reach out from the page and affect the bodies of those who encounter them.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: 'Ogun Goes Back Under the Car': Spoken Stage Directions
- Chapter 2: 'The Bird I Hope to Catch in the Net of This Play': Affective Stage Directions
- Chapter 3: 'They Dance. Except It's Not Really Like Gandhi': Choreographic Stage Directions
- Chapter 4: 'And, Perhaps, the Hairy Ape at Last Belongs': Multivalent Stage Directions
- Chapter 5: 'A Man Named Newburn Comes Out of the Faucet Which Has Been Left Running': Impossible Stage Directions
- Conclusion
- Works Cited and Selected Bibliography
