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Inside the Rehearsal Room: Process, Collaboration and Decision-Making
Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023
With an exclusive focus on text-based theatre-making, Inside the Rehearsal Room is both an instructional and conceptual examination of the rehearsal process. Drawing on professional practice and underpinned by theory, this book moves through each stage of rehearsals, considering the inter-connectivity between the actor, director, designers and the backstage team, and how the cumulative effect of the weeks in rehearsal influences the final production.
The text also
- Auto-ethnographic and fully ethno-graphic case study approaches to different rehearsal rooms
- Interviews with directors, actors, designers and actor trainers
- A consideration of the ethics of the rehearsal room and material selected for production
- Practical exercises on how to creatively read a text from an acting and directing perspective
Informed by over 20 years of directing experience in the UK and Europe, Robert Marsden's book offers a practical guide that ultimately demystifies the rehearsal process and challenges how the rehearsal room should be run in the twenty-first century.
With an exclusive focus on text-based theatre-making, Inside the Rehearsal Room is both an instructional and conceptual examination of the rehearsal process. Drawing on professional practice and underpinned by theory, this book moves through each stage of rehearsals, considering the inter-connectivity between the actor, director, designers and the backstage team, and how the cumulative effect of the weeks in rehearsal influences the final production.
The text also
- Auto-ethnographic and fully ethno-graphic case study approaches to different rehearsal rooms
- Interviews with directors, actors, designers and actor trainers
- A consideration of the ethics of the rehearsal room and material selected for production
- Practical exercises on how to creatively read a text from an acting and directing perspective
Informed by over 20 years of directing experience in the UK and Europe, Robert Marsden's book offers a practical guide that ultimately demystifies the rehearsal process and challenges how the rehearsal room should be run in the twenty-first century.
253 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 30, 2021
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February 22, 2026
Quite the essential book for any director/actor. It is a thorough examination of the mystery we continually take for granted known as “the rehearsal
room”: interrogating its role in the past, its current state, and how it may transform in the future.
Ultimately, it hones in on one key point: as a director, the rehearsal room should be uniquely yours. It should be a space that responds to the given text you bring it in the given moment. And it should not be underestimated.
room”: interrogating its role in the past, its current state, and how it may transform in the future.
Ultimately, it hones in on one key point: as a director, the rehearsal room should be uniquely yours. It should be a space that responds to the given text you bring it in the given moment. And it should not be underestimated.
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