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Author: Christopher Innes (York University, Toronto) ,
Maria Shevtsova (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.600kg
ISBN: 9780521844499
ISBN 10: 0521844495
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 02 May 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'This history of directing and directors in Western theater is an eminently useful volume that should be a part of every serious theater library … Recommended. All readers.' M. S. LoMonaco, Choice 'Anyone seeking a really good one volume overview of the history and practice of directing from the ancient Greeks to today would do well to take a close look at this new volume … a valuable introduction to an immensely complicated field.' Critical Stages
'This history of directing and directors in Western theater is an eminently useful volume that should be a part of every serious theater library ... Recommended. All readers.' M. S. LoMonaco, Choice 'Anyone seeking a really good one volume overview of the history and practice of directing from the ancient Greeks to today would do well to take a close look at this new volume ... a valuable introduction to an immensely complicated field.' Critical Stages
This history of directing and directors in Western theater is an eminently useful volume that should be a part of every serious theater library Recommended. All readers. M. S. LoMonaco, Choice
Author Information
Christopher Innes is Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto, and Research Professor at Copenhagen University. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), as well as a Killam Fellow, he holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture. Author of fifteen books - translated into eight different languages - he has also published over 120 articles on various aspects of modern drama. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Directors in Perspective series, Co-Editor of the Lives of the Theatre series, Contributing Editor to The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre and has been Co-Editor of the quarterly journal Modern Drama. He has been a visiting Professor in Australia, Germany and Japan, and has lectured around the world, as well as holding visiting Fellowships at Corpus Christi and St John's Colleges in Cambridge. His website is www.moderndrama.com. Maria Shevtsova is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London and a Fellow of the International Research Center 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Author of numerous books, including Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004) and over 100 articles in refereed journals and chapters of collected volumes, her publications have been translated into seven languages. She is the co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and a member of the editorial team of Critical Stages, the online journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics. She is on the editorial boards of various international journals including the Russian-British Stanislavski Studies and Polish Theatre Perspectives. She has been a Visiting Professor at various institutions across the world, including the Academy of Theatre Arts in St Petersburg.
