How to Stage a Play is a practical guide and checklist for amateur producers and directors wanting to get a production on stage. Including: - Planning a Production - Role of Director - Stage Management - Auditioning and Rehearsing - Technical terminology It concludes with a chapter of notes for actors, dealing with common issues such as forgetting lines, overcoming nerves, voice projection and marking up scripts. These tips and techniques are drawn from over fifty years' experience both in amateur and professional theatre and will form an invaluable foundation for any group wanting to maximise the pleasure and satisfaction to be enjoyed from public performance - both for the group themselves, and their audience! (Originally published in the UK as Section 2 of 'Beginners Please'.)