Kenneth F. Anderson, '52
Good Grief: Using the Grief Sheet to Improve Community Theatre Production:
Telling the Story Better Than It Has Ever Been Told Before. Paperback,
616 pages; Writers Club Press, November 2002.
"Grief sheets" are the theatre director's written critiques of rehearsals. Anderson, who has directed more than 300 shows in a 40-year career in community and school theatre, first used the grief-sheet technique in 1957, when he founded the Riverside Players in Neenah.
"I've discovered I am the only one who writes critiques after every rehearsal," he says. "Other directors wrote grief notes and then assembled cast and crew to convey them verbally."
The book, a "how-to" guide for the aspiring director, includes as case studies the production notes written for 13 shows he directed at the University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley, Attic Theatre, and other venues.
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