Directors’ Theatre
- ISBN-10
- 1352007975
- ISBN-13
- 9781352007978
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-12-19
- Publisher
- Red Globe Press
- Authors
- David Williams, David Bradby
Description
This extended new edition of a seminal text marks the 30th anniversary of the original book’s major intervention in the discipline. Bradby and Williams' field-defining book introduced the continental-European approach to directing, recognising the work of the modern stage director as an artist in his or her own right for the first time. Now edited by Peter M. Boenisch in collaboration with David Williams, this new edition includes an additional four chapters by leading contemporary experts on theatre direction. Covering recent practices and developments, as well as new trends in the academic research on directing, Directors' Theatre interrogates working ethics and performance aesthetics, directors' work with actors as a central creative source and their responses to the ongoing reassessment of theatre's role and function in contemporary culture. This long-awaited reissue will make a classic, authoritative study on directors and directing accessible to a new generation of students, scholars and artists. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Theatre, Performance Studies and Directing.
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