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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface to Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Is Collaboration? -- The Core Action -- The Responsibilities of Collaboration -- Fundamental Techniques -- Key terms -- Notes -- Supplemental Reading -- 1 Collaboration and Leadership -- Balancing Leadership and Collaboration -- Note -- Supplemental Reading -- 2 Core Action -- Story and Plot -- Exercise Critique -- Action Analysis -- Script Analysis -- Key Terms -- Supplemental Reading -- 3 Collaboration in Rehearsal -- The First Scene Collaboration -- Preparation -- Sample Rehearsal Schedule -- Rehearsal Observations -- Videotaping Rehearsals -- Key terms -- Note -- Supplemental Reading -- 4 Directing Elements -- Textual Elements -- Structure -- Actions and Objectives -- Shifts and Key Moments -- Ground Plan -- Character -- Relationship and Status -- Language -- Visceral Elements -- Tempo and Rhythm -- Sound and Mood -- Visual Composition -- Movement -- Stage Configurations -- Gesture -- Environment -- Style -- Integrating Directing Elements -- Script Analysis -- Dramaturgy Checklist -- Key terms -- Note -- Supplemental Reading -- 5 Design Collaboration -- Core Action Statements -- Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen -- The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel -- The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter -- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare -- Design Timetable -- Key Terms -- Supplemental Reading -- 6 Other Collaborators -- Playwrights -- Readings and Staged Readings -- Dramaturgs -- Music Directors and Choreographers -- Key Terms -- Supplemental Reading -- 7 Technology and Collaboration -- Technology and Collaboration, by Lynne Koscielniak -- The Technical Director as Collaborator, by Jonathan Shimon -- 8 Immersive and Devised Theater -- Immersive Theater -- Devised Theater, by Lindsay Brandon Hunter -- Note -- Works Cited