Backwards and Forwards
A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
by David Ball
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appears in Acting and Nonfiction.
This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use...
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