The Production Notebooks: Volume 1 by Mark Bly

The Production Notebooks: Volume 1 by Mark Bly

Detailed case-studies of four major productions by leading American theatre companies.

America's finest dramaturgs chart the progress of the productions from writing and design through to final production. A comprehensive insight into directing, designing, acting and theatrical management.

The productions featured in this volume are:

The Clytemnestra Project
based on the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Garland Wright, director
Jim Lewis, dramaturg
The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN

Danton's Death
by Georg Buchner, trans. Robert Auletta
Robert Wilson, director
Christopher Baker, dramaturg
Alley Theatre, Houston, TX

The Love Space Demands
by Ntozake Shange, adapted from her poetry
Talvin Wilks, director
Shelby Jiggetts, dramaturg
Crossroads Theatre Company, New Brunswick, NJ

Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream
based on the film by Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert
Dominique Serrand, director
Paul Walsh, dramaturg
Company created by Theatre de la Jeaune Lune, Minneapolis, MN

See also the companion volume, The Production Notebooks: Volume 2.

Mark Bly has worked as a dramaturg, director of new play development, and associate artistic director for the Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, and Yale Rep, producing over 250 plays in a career in theatre spanning more than 40 years. Bly has dramaturged Broadway productions and has been credited as being the first production dramaturg on Broadway for his work on Execution of Justice. Bly has also served as the Director of the MFA Playwriting Programs for the Yale School of Drama, Hunter College, and Fordham/Primary Stages in a nearly 30-year Teaching Artist career. He is the editor and author of The Production Notebooks: Theater in Process Volumes I & II. Bly is an active freelance dramaturg and was the recipient of the LMDA's G.E. Lessing Award for Career Achievement in 2010 and in 2019 was honored by The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival with its most prestigious award, The Kennedy Center Medallion of Excellence.