Theatrical Violence Design

Safety, Illusion, and Story in Stage Combat Choreography

By: Richard Gilbert, David Bareford

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Hardcover | 14 November 2024

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268 Pages

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25.4 x 17.78 x 1.6

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$318.16

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Theatrical Violence Design offers the reader a complete education in the theory

and practice of designing violence for the theater.

From swordfights to exchanges of gunfire to domestic violence, the theater

abounds in physical conflict. The artists who design that violence, sometimes

called fight directors or choreographers, will find in this book an invaluable

resource for becoming more expert at their craft. In the chapters of this book,

they will encounter the core principles of creating violent effects, the body of

knowledge with which they should be familiar, and the nuts and bolts of the

process of design work from the first meeting with a director through closing

night.

This book is written for the student of stage combat to transition into

violence design and will also be of interest to experienced violence designers

and choreographers.

Industry Reviews

"David and Richard have put together one of the most useful and clear guides to the craft of choreographing and designing violence for the theatre. They lay out a clear strategy for building and diagnosing any stage combat technique, and for crafting violent stories for a live audience. This book is as useful to beginning artists as it is to seasoned choreographers, challenging engrained patterns, and raising the bar for the stories of violence we put on sage."

--Zev Steinrock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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