Read Whenever You're Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager

Whenever You're Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager

Shawn Desouza-Coelho

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Description:Backstage with one of Canada’s greatest stage managersWhenever You’re Ready is an intimate account of the career of Nora Polley, who — in her 52 years at the Stratford Festival — has learned from, worked with, and cared for some of the greatest directors, actors, stage managers, and productions in Canadian theatrical history. In so doing, Nora became one of the greatest stage managers this country has ever seen.Here is an account of the Stratford Festival’s history like no other. From her childhood forays into a theater her father, Victor, worked tirelessly to help maintain, to her unexpected apprenticeship and the equally unexpected 40 years of stage management it ushered in, this is the Stratford Festival seen exclusively through Nora’s eyes. Here is an immersive account of a life spent in service of the theater, told from the ground floor: where actors struggle with lines and anxieties, where directors lose themselves in the work, where the next season is always uncertain, and where Nora — a stage manager, a custodian, a confidante, a pillar, a rock — finds her rhythm, her patience, her perseverance, her love, her consistency, and her invisibility. These are the qualities that make a stage manager great and, whenever you’re ready, this book will show you why.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Whenever You're Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager. To get started finding Whenever You're Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 420

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: ECW Press

Release: 2018

ISBN: 1770414029

Description: Backstage with one of Canada’s greatest stage managersWhenever You’re Ready is an intimate account of the career of Nora Polley, who — in her 52 years at the Stratford Festival — has learned from, worked with, and cared for some of the greatest directors, actors, stage managers, and productions in Canadian theatrical history. In so doing, Nora became one of the greatest stage managers this country has ever seen.Here is an account of the Stratford Festival’s history like no other. From her childhood forays into a theater her father, Victor, worked tirelessly to help maintain, to her unexpected apprenticeship and the equally unexpected 40 years of stage management it ushered in, this is the Stratford Festival seen exclusively through Nora’s eyes. Here is an immersive account of a life spent in service of the theater, told from the ground floor: where actors struggle with lines and anxieties, where directors lose themselves in the work, where the next season is always uncertain, and where Nora — a stage manager, a custodian, a confidante, a pillar, a rock — finds her rhythm, her patience, her perseverance, her love, her consistency, and her invisibility. These are the qualities that make a stage manager great and, whenever you’re ready, this book will show you why.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Whenever You're Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager. To get started finding Whenever You're Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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