Theatre: individual actors & directors books

“Dukore’s style is fluid and his wit delightful. I learned a tremendous amount, as will most readers, and Bernard Shaw...  Read More >>

Every artist has a dream project an enterprise that he or she has continuously taken up but never completed. Genet...  Read More >>

Every artist has a dream project an enterprise that he or she has continuously taken up but never completed. Genet...  Read More >>

This book examines the history, ethics, and intentions of staging personal stories and offers theatre makers detailed...  Read More >>

First published in Argentina 2015 as Lo incapturable by Reservoir Books.  Read More >>

First published in Argentina 2015 as Lo incapturable by Reservoir Books.  Read More >>

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Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life- actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even...  Read More >>

Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings...  Read More >>

This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed...  Read More >>

Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on...  Read More >>

What did modern theatre in Russia look like and how did it foreground tradition building and transmission processes?...  Read More >>

This book analyses the work of applied theatre practitioners using a new framework of ‘responsivity’ to make visible...  Read More >>

This book calls upon globalisation, queer, cinema, and affect studies to explore key Robert Lepage productions from...  Read More >>

The first-ever book published in NZ about acting technique, 'Acting and How to Survive it' also takes in surviving...  Read More >>

Collaborative processes are seen to develop as it occurs between academic researchers in the creative arts and professional...  Read More >>

In the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s,...  Read More >>

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This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview...  Read More >>

Examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers...  Read More >>

A memoir from the author of IN THE CUT 'A captivating portrait of a woman in search of herself' Kirkus 'Moore's...  Read More >>

Sir Trevor Nunn is one of the most versatile and accomplished directors in the English-speaking theatre. This book...  Read More >>

Last year when Garry Hynes asked me to edit a book on Synge, I realised that a great seachange had taken place in...  Read More >>

This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners...  Read More >>

​This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded...  Read More >>