Staging Youth Theatre: a Practical Guide

Staging Youth Theatre is a practical guide to starting or running a theatre for young people. From the initial idea to form a company, through the tense days of rehearsal, to the final performance of the first production, it covers all aspects of youth theatre management, production and direction. Creating a company and choosing a venue · Working together ? building a team, improving technical standards and motivating individuals · Choosing suitable material and assessing scripts · Pre-rehearsal planning, preparation, conducting auditions, and casting · Design, lighting and sound, costume and props · Devising stories or plays · Conducting technical and dress rehearsals · Surviving [and enjoying] the first night and the run of the play AUTHOR: Rex Doyle is an actor, teacher, writer and director. He has written and devised plays with Sheffield Youth Theatre. For twenty years he ran a company of actors producing work for young people. He was Senior Acting Tutor at Guildford School of Acting and still continues to teach there part-time. 82 b/w photos