On Directing: Interviews with Directors

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Gabriella Giannachi, Mary Luckhurst
Palgrave Macmillan, Sep 11, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 142 pages

The profession of directing is barely a century old. On Directing considers the position of the director in theater and performance today. What is a director? How do they begin work on a play or performance? What methods are used in rehearsal? Is the director an enabler, a collaborator or dictator? As we enter the new millennium, is the very concept of directing under increasing threat from changes in thinking and practice? The full diversity of today's approaches to directing are explored through a series of interviews with leading contemporary practitioners. On Directing is a landmark book about the director's craft.

 

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About the author (1999)

Gabriella Giannachi, editor of On Directing, is Professor of Performance and New Media and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter. Mary Luckhurst is a playwright, translator and Lecturer in Modern Drama at York University, U.K. She coedited On Directing, On Acting, Playing for Real: Actors Performing Real People, and Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000. She is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre.

Bibliographic information

TitleOn Directing: Interviews with Directors
EditorsGabriella Giannachi, Mary Luckhurst
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan, 1999
ISBN0312224834, 9780312224837
Length142 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Criticism / Drama
Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production
Performing Arts / Individual Director
Performing Arts / Theater / Direction & Production
  
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