How to Produce Amateur Plays: A Practical Manual

Chapter 43: Transcriber Notes:

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About This Book

A practical manual for amateur theatre groups that walks readers through every stage of mounting a production: choosing a suitable script, organizing the company, selecting a cast, and conducting rehearsals with progressive techniques. It covers technical and design elements such as stage construction, scene shifting, lighting, scenery, costumes, and make-up, and provides selective play recommendations matched to varying casts and abilities. Appendices address practical matters like copyright and royalties, while diagrams and photographs illustrate setups and procedures. The overall aim is straightforward, pragmatic guidance that orders tasks from the initial decision to the final performance.

Transcriber Notes:

Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations, and the order of illustrations may not be the same in the List of Illustrations and in the book.

Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted.

On page 115, "Minna Von Barnhelm" was replaced with "Minna von Barnhelm".