Theatre direction and production

First Published in 1996.

Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock.

Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the world's great theatre artists combine collaboration with leadership at all levels, from a production's conception to its final performance.

Screen plays is a ground-breaking collection that chronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and the present.

On the eve of one of the most important games of his career, Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas received a warning: The Sun newspaper was going to out him as gay.

Dramaturgy in the Making maps contemporary dramaturgical practices in various settings of theatre-making and dance to reveal the different ways that dramaturgs work today.

This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his professional trajectory.

The main aim of the work is to present emblematics in Hungary in its European context, and to show the reciprocal influence between that phenomenon and mainstream literature.

Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting.

This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country.

The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that have not had the critical engagement they deserve.

Cheek by Jowl, founded by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 1981, is one of the world's most critically acclaimed classical theatre companies.

The aim of this book is to contribute a dramaturgical perspective to education.

Brazil has one of the most vibrant theater cultures in the world, home to a wide variety of theatrical expression.

Sensory Theatre: How to Make Interactive, Inclusive, Immersive Theatre for Diverse Audiences by a Founder of Oily Cart is an accessible step-by-step guide to creating theatre for inclusive audiences, such as young people on the autism spectrum or affected by other neuro-divergent conditions and children under two.

Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre.

A World Elsewhere is Steven Berkoff's bold attempt to describe his multifarious theatrical works.

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavsky to Shakespeare.

HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing.

Amidst the turmoil of political revolution, the stage directors of twentieth-century Russia rewrote the rules of theatre making.

I have a boy.

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century.

[Alanna] Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and [Baby, Lets Play House] is a fascinating study.

This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre.

In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation.

This is a collection of John Freedman's reviews and articles, most originally written for the Moscow Times, in which he focuses his expert critical eye on the directors, writers and actors who held centre stage during the 1996-97 theatre season in Moscow.

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2020How do you decide what stories an audience should hear?

Peter Brook is known internationally as a theatre visionary, and a daring experimenter on the cutting-edge of performance and production.

Volker Lösch ist mit Theaterarbeiten bekannt geworden, die das seit den 1990er Jahren beliebte Mittel des Chorischen einsetzen, um Realitäten der zeitgenössischen Wirklichkeit in das Stadttheater zu integrieren - ein "Detektivunternehmen zur Erforschung der wirklichen Verhältnisse".

Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre.

In Strategies for Success in Musical Theatre, veteran musical director and teacher Herbert Marshall provides an essential how-to guide for teachers or community members who find themselves in charge of music directing a show.

Seit 2002 untersucht die Berliner Opernkompanie NOVOFLOT verdeckte und kaum beachtete Dimensionen der Gattung Oper und zeigt die oft mehrteiligen Ergebnisse ihrer Forschungen auf Volksbühnen, Trabrennbahnen, Brachflächen, in Radialsystemen, mobilen Opernhausarchitekturen sowie halbversunkenen Kirchen im öffentlichen Raum.

Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera is a no-nonsense guide for producers looking to get the best performances from "e;real people"e; to tell powerful stories on video.

Was macht ein Zuschauer, der zuhört, in Aufführungen inszenierten Klangs?

How do audiences experience live performances?

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

Contemporary Women Stage Directors opens the door into the minds of 27 prolific female theatre directors, allowing you to explore their experience, wisdom and knowledge.

Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist.

Working with Actors provides the key to unlocking the honest, dynamic performance every actor has within them.

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical,and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects.

These studies take stage history as a means of knowing the play.

With over one thousand entries, this is the first encyclopedia of stage actors and acting around the world.

Do you have to be an extrovert to succeed as an actor?

Rice''s practice as theatre-maker, her ethics of affirmation and contribution to queer worldmaking, is theorised as feminist acts of love.

An expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.

'I don't understand how we got here.

This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site.