Theatre direction and production

This scholarly volume delves into the manner in which British Muslims articulate their cultural, social and religious identities through theatrical productions in 21st-century Britain and examines their portrayal within these performances.

This transnational and transcultural study intimately investigates the theatre making practices of Indigenous women playwrights from Australia, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island.

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work.

This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core.

What makes a Shakespeare production political?

A historical drama about the days immediately before Confederation when Sir John A.

Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023With an exclusive focus on text-based theatre-making, Inside the Rehearsal Room is both an instructional and conceptual examination of the rehearsal process.

The Show Makers describes twelve of the most creative and influential directors of contemporary musical theatre.

Der Theater- und Opernregisseur Klaus Michael Grüber (1941–2008) war zeitlebens von Flucht und Migration nicht existenziell betroffen.

This practical guide presents a wide array of games and exercises designed to develop the players observation, imagination, presentation and self-confidence.

In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency.

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.

This is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting designers, researchers and artists.

Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s to the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority.

Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2025The stage of the 1700s established a star culture, with the emergence of such acting celebrities as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber, and Sarah Siddons.

Futures of Performance inspires both current and future artists/academics to reflect on their roles and responsibilities in igniting future-forward thinking and practices for the performing arts in higher education.

This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which housed many prominent American productions from 1924-1970.

In Rehearsal is a clear and accessible how-to approach to the rehearsal process.

Marco Paolini: A Deep Map breaks new ground in the field of Italian political theatre by outlining the unique approach of one of Italy's most celebrated playwrights, Marco Paolini, whose work has hitherto remained mostly inaccessible to English-speaking audiences.

Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training focuses on neuro and physical difference and dis/ability in the teaching of performance and associated studies.

This practical guide presents a wide array of games and exercises designed to develop the players observation, imagination, presentation and self-confidence.

This book examines how a predominantly negative view of community has presented a challenge to critical analysis of community performance practice.

A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights "e;Lahr's cogent analyses are revelatory.

A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain''s foremost living composers.

The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in-depth look at specializations that exist within the profession.

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Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre is a critical introduction to the most influential and innovative theatre practitioners in the Americas, all of whom have been pioneers in changing the field.

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Ein Hand- und Lesebuch mit kommentierten Originaltexten bedeutender Regisseure.

Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre and performance.

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

Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting, Voice, and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text offers a collection of strategic and practical approaches to understanding, analyzing, and embodying a range of heightened text styles, including Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, and Restoration/comedy of manners.

What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art?

Based on interviews with over forty award-winning artists, How to Rehearse a Play offers multiple solutions to the challenges that directors face from first rehearsal to opening night.

Stanislavsky and Race is the first book to explore the role that Konstantin Stanislavsky's "e;system"e; and its legacies can play in building, troubling and illuminating today's anti-racist theatre practices.

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

Victorian touring actresses brings new attention to women's experience of working in nineteenth-century theatre by focusing on a diverse group of largely forgotten 'mid-tier' performers, rather than the usual celebrity figures.

This book is an insiders' account of the groundbreaking Moscow production of Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Anatoly Efros in 1966, which heralded a paradigm shift in the interpretation and staging of Chekhov's plays.

A Theory of Dramaturgy is the first text of its kind to define concepts and combine arguments into a coherent dramaturgical theory supported by an operative systems theory.

Cutting Plays for Performance offers a practical guide for cutting a wide variety of classical and modern plays.

This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media.

This study offers a historicization of the 2010s in British theatre with a focus on the representation of systemic violence, exploring productions that engage with concerns of protest, climate crisis, neoliberalism, racism and gender-based violence.

From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing theatre, acting and the collaborative creative process.

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.