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Othello Director's Playbook: The Moor of Venice
Othello Director's Playbook The Moor of Venice Author:William Shakespeare This Shakespeare Playbook is a workbook/sketchbook for directors, covering every aspect of actually producing Othello, from budget to costumes, to acting tips, publicity, auditioning?all the various elements and people needed to create a production. Every scene has its own stage diagram to fill in with which sets go where; scenes are broken into... more » segments, with keylines, and much space to sketch action, costumes, set designs. Entrances and exits, space for auditioning notes, suggestions on team-building, keeping a timeline and schedule, a sample budget, elements that go into creating an attractive playbill (which is also a primary way of providing advertising space for sponsors and/or parents), publicity avenues. As Paul Freeman says, "A producer's dream. Just add actors." Othello is an intense drama of love and jealousy, human weakness and human spirit, one of Shakespeare's explorations into the depths of loyalty, betrayal, and above all, love.« less