Not Magic but Work

An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process

Gay McAuley, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale , Peter Lichtenfels

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Manchester University Press
01 July 2015

Theatre direction & production

Series: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance

Newly available in paperback, this is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Drawing on years of research McAuley rejects simplistic

By: Gay McAuley
Series edited by: Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 299g
ISBN: 9780719099311
ISBN 10: 0719099315
Series: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 July 2015
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Writing about rehearsal – some preliminary observations Part one: The toy symphony rehearsals Company list The starting point – Michael’s text The first day Establishing the chronology (day 2) Stop/start reading (days 2-4) Scene work (days 4-14) The sign systems come together (days 15-19) Runs and notes (days 20-27) Creating the play Technical production – a parallel universe In the theatre at last (days 28-35) Part two: Reflections after the event Fact and fiction and the space between Neil’s play, Michael’s play and Richard’s play The director’s process Rehearsal and interaction ritual Works cited -- .

Gay McAuley is Honorary Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney -- .

Reviews for Not Magic but Work: An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process

'A welcome contribution to the field' P. Solomon Lennox, Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2013|Alex Mermikides Kingston University Gay McAuley's modest summary of her project as 'an attempt to describe a single rehearsal process' (p. 2) does not do justice to the significance of this volume in furthering our understanding of 'how a group of artists with very different skills, working in a range of different media, come together for an intensive period and produce a single work of art' (p. 4), and in exemplifying the value of rehearsal observation in revealing the 'profoundly collaborative nature of theatrical creation' (p. 4). As a forensic account of Belvoir Street Theatre's staging of Michael Gow's Toy Symphony (2007), this study affirms the international significance of this theatre company to a readership outside of Australia., Alex Mermikides, Kingston University, Contemporary Theatre Review, 30 April 2015 -- .