 | Dramaturgy in American Theatre: A Source Book by Susan S. Jonas
Buy new: $105.95 / Used from: $51.99 Expensive, but this is "The Book" of American dramaturgy. Includes essays from all the major people in the field.
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 | What is Dramaturgy?
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $158.29 A very thorough answer to a question that we never stop asking.
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 | The Production Notebooks: Theatre in Process, Volume One (Theatre in Process, Vol 1)
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $2.89 Production diaries of four dramaturgs' work on major non-profit productions.
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 | Production Notebooks Volume 2
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $8.15 More production diaries from U.S. and European productions.
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| Between the Lines
Buy used from: $177.39 Interviews with many eminent contemporary theater professionals and scholars.
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 | The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama
Buy new: $27.04 / Used from: $20.00 Part of a dramaturg's job is to 'Know Everything', or at least be able to find it quickly. This book will help a lot. Note that this is the new, much cheaper Dover edition
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 | Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present by Marvin Carlson
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $6.21 Collection of major western dramatic theory and critical works.. Carlson does a great job of condensing most of Western theater history into one volume.
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 | Theatre/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.98 Another collection of dramatic theory and critical works. This is a pure anthology, without the historical through-line in Carlson. Includues more Asian and contemporary Western material than Carlson.
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 | The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) by Marvin Carlson
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $18.95 Carlson's newest book, this one explores theater as cultural memory, and the dynamics between a current production and all previous productions of a play.
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 | Technical Theater for Nontechnical People by Drew Campbell
Buy used from: $4.00 Great book for understanding the process the design and technical staff go through on a show (and therefore how best to work with them) Also good material on publicity and audience development work.
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 | Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $11.95 Short but extremely helpful script analysis book. Ball's system will help anyone who writes reader's reports or otherwise needs to evaluate scripts quickly and thoroughly
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 | A Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder
Buy new: $8.80 / Used from: $1.56 Good, quick book on modern acting, focusing on David Mamet's ideas. A great help in understanding how to prepare material for actors without making character choices for them.
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