CHAPTER 2THE PRODUCTION PROCESS
THE WORD SCRIPT is used to describe the written body of a play. Almost every production starts with one. The timeline of turning that script into an opening night is called the production process. Every theatre organization does that differently, and every individual production follows a slightly different path. However, some basic guidelines are true just about everywhere. This chapter lays out a process of how to get from A to Z, but it isn’t meant to be the absolute way of doing things, because there are so many different ways of working. Even so one must begin the discussion somewhere, and this chapter is an illustrative example of some very commonly used steps along the way. Much of it is constructed from ...
