William Ball, the author, goes through what makes a play beautiful to how no two plays should be directed the same way. He constantly plays with the word beauty even when he doesn't use the word he is implying it. Intentional or not the author seems to be hooked on this word.

    His general goal or the foundation of what he is trying to get across is: what makes a play beautiful, and how to amplify it. His whole book is how to perserve the beauty, or how to make it even more appealing, awe inspiring, and beautiful. He even goes as far as to suggest, but to me more of defining, what is and is not beautiful.

    In conclusion the book is ultimatly a self help book, but beneath the surface lies a deep love for directing that the author communicates wel. It's obvious to the reader that the author is a professional with loads of experience. His love and admiration for the art that is the play is something to be appreciated. All in all this would be a good book to read thourghly.

How I would apply what I've read to my Internship

Reading what little I've read about this book has given me a better idea on how to structure things. The idea that preperation is key to making a play beautiful can be easily applied to a, for instance, interview. The whole preparing, and creating the questions that your going to be asking are key to a good interview. Also rehearsing the interview by just asking the mirror some of the questions you'll be asking will make you relaxed. So when the time comes to the interview you'll know your questions a lot better and that will make it easier to come up with follow up questions, because you know all of your main questions.
    Another thing that I can take from this book is the element of unity. This notion that in order for something to be appealing, or beautiful has to do with the unity. With unity comes harmony which strikes a cord, in a good way, with people. It triggers memories of childhood, or other positive and heart warming experiences. Some of the time though unty can bring a "aha!" moment. Which signals that you've just had an epiphany. What I can take is making everything mesh together to create a flowing interview with no rough transitions between questions. Also questions that would build uppon each other to create a story worth reading, or watching.