On Directing: Interviews with Directors

Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN 10: 0312224834 / ISBN 13: 9780312224837

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Directing: Interviews with Directors
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312224834
• ISBN 13: 9780312224837
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.