A CALLING DIRECTOR'S VERSION TO THE STAGE

a Calling totheStage Performing with Excellence for the Lord a His Company publiCation DireCtor’s Version a Calling totheStage the writings of . A Calling to the Stage © 2011 David S. Lampel. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture is from the New American Standard Bible, Updated Edition, © 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. NIV quotations are from the Holy Bible: New International Version, Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission. Quotations by Laurence Olivier are from On Acting, Simon & Schuster, 1986. Quotations by Uta Hagen are from A Challenge for the Actor, Charles Scribners Sons, 1991. QuotationsbyJohnGielgudarefromGielgud:AnActorandHisTime,ClarksonN.Potter,Inc.,1980. Other quotations are from Actors on Acting, by Joanmarie Kalter, Sterling Publishing, 1979. This book, A Calling to the Stage: Director’s Version, is published in PDF format only, and re-quires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Acrobat Reader is free from Adobe, and may be down-loaded from their web site at http://www.adobe.com. Individuals may download a copy of this book for personal use, as well as print multiple copies of it or its companion volume, A Calling to the Stage: Actor’s Version. for distribution to members of a drama group—so long as it is distributed free-of-charge, in its entirety (including this copyright notice), and no changes are made to the text prior to printing. To request any other uses of this book, contact David S. Lampel by telephone at 515-462-1971, or by leaving a message at our web site at http://hc.dlampel.com Director’s Version First Edition / May 2003 Second Edition / July 2011 To download the PDF file, visit the His Company web site at http://hc.dlampel.com ii contents preface ix introduction xiii What This Book is Not..........................................................xiii What This Book Is................................................................. xiv Part One: The His Company Way 1. A Brief History 3 In the Beginning…...................................................................3 A Commission to Serve............................................................6 Curtain .....................................................................................6 A Hard Lesson..........................................................................7 Today—and Beyond?...............................................................9 By God’s Grace........................................................................10 2. Our Philosophy 11 Foundational Principles.........................................................11 In the Real World...................................................................14 Finances..................................................................................18 Expressions of Thanksgiving.................................................21 The His Company Way...........................................................22 3. The Calling 25 Answering the Questions......................................................26 4. To Be, or Not to Be 29 Security vs. Artistic Freedom................................................30 The Call...................................................................................31 Personnel................................................................................32 Rehearsal Space......................................................................34 The Essentials.........................................................................35 The Non-essentials.................................................................38 The Production Process..........................................................40 Part Two: A Director’s Guide 1. Selecting the Play 47 More than just Killing Time..................................................48 Obtaining a Script..................................................................49 Now What?.............................................................................49 Imagining...............................................................................51 iii ... - tailieumienphi.vn