regie-book

Definitions

A director's notebook detailing the development of a production.

Examples

“The director's action plot, prompt-book or regie-book — whichever he calls it — shows diagrammatically the relative positions and movements of the performers throughout the play⟳.”

“[…] he writes in the margins and blank pages all important statements made by the director about motivations and characterizations, about the cutting or adding of words or lines, the actors' comment⟳ on characters and dialogue — in short, the regie-book is a complete⟳ picture of what happened at rehearsals.”

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