Theatre Direction & Production

From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book – packed with over 200 individual games – is perfect ...

This book is an insiders’ account of the groundbreaking Moscow production of Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Anatoly Efros in 1966, which heralde...

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 bein...

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and la...

In Enlightenment Edinburgh, Allan Ramsay (c. 1684 1758) was a foundationally important poet, dramatist, song collector, theatre owner, cultural lea...

Theatres worldwide have exhibited a bewildering array of form, style, tone and subject in the late 20th- and the early 21st centuries, and this ran...

A contemporary dramatic take on a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic that is foundational to Indian culture. Why Not Theatre’s large-scale, once-in-a-gen...

This book begins with the observation that contemporary artists have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade. Necessarily focusing...

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

Directing with the Michael Chekhov Technique explores the collaborative process between a play’s director and the entire production team, making th...