Theatre direction and production

The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett''s prose and theatre.

The first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company.

Explores theatre''s relationship with the market economy since the 1990s, from the Third Way to the age of austerity.

In Goin' Legit, mobsters seek a conventional bank loan with hilarious results.

This book is the first to explore Shaw’s full involvement with the twentieth-century British regional repertory movement.

This book is the first to explore Shaw’s full involvement with the twentieth-century British regional repertory movement.

Stanislavsky’s Use of Improvisation is the first work that brings together material across Stanislavsky’s entire career to survey his use of improvisation.

Stanislavsky’s Use of Improvisation is the first work that brings together material across Stanislavsky’s entire career to survey his use of improvisation.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of influential and popular Chinese drama actors and actresses, innovative directors, and emerging playwrights.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of influential and popular Chinese drama actors and actresses, innovative directors, and emerging playwrights.

This is a book of the history of China's contemporary drama.

This is a book of the history of China's contemporary drama.

The book is intended to become a useful reference for theatre people who need "e;China knowledge"e;.

The book is intended to become a useful reference for theatre people who need "e;China knowledge"e;.

Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh's The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world's leading producer of Restoration Comedies.

Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh's The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world's leading producer of Restoration Comedies.

Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.

Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.

This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht's continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change.

This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht's continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change.

The Art of Collaboration explores the critical relationship between directors and stage managers.

Combining theory and historiography, this book presents a new means for considering rhythm in postdramatic performance by examining the creative processes of three major international companies: Mime Omnibus (Montreal, Canada), Dairakudakan (Tokyo, Japan), and SITI Company (New York, US).

Staging the Ghost Story is the first book to offer a critical appraisal of the centuries-long relationship between the ghost story and the English stage.

Staging the Ghost Story is the first book to offer a critical appraisal of the centuries-long relationship between the ghost story and the English stage.

How to Rehearse a Scene: Progressive Exercises to Enhance Scene Work provides detailed exercises and assignments that will imaginatively and artistically enhance an actor's scene process work from start to finish.

Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage explores rhetoric and theater as they relate to one another, developing the understanding of rhetoric as theory and praxis.