Handbook for community theatre directors : a correspondence program / Virginia Kirshner. by Kirshner, Virginia

Fifty key theatre directors / edited by Shomit Mitter and Maria Shevtsova.

Table of Contents: “…BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF CONTENTS; ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; FIFTY KEY THEATRE DIRECTORS; INDEX.…”
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So you want to be a theatre director? / Stephen Unwin. by Unwin, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…What it takes -- What is a theatre director? -- Starting out -- Contexts and colleagues -- Choice of play -- Preparation -- Casting -- Design 1: Creative -- Design 2: Practical -- Rehearsals 1: Starting out -- Rehearsals 2: Establishing facts -- Rehearsals 3: Warm-ups, improvisation, games and exercises -- Rehearsals 4: Language -- Rehearsals 5: Character -- Rehearsals 6: Blocking and movement -- Rehearsals 7: Specialists -- Rehearsals 8: Manners -- Rehearsals 9: Running it -- Putting it on the stage -- Opening -- Hamlet, Konstantin and the radical young director.…”

The director's voice : interviews with theatre directors / by Arthur Bartow. by Bartow, Arthur

Directing : a handbook for emerging theatre directors / Rob Swain. by Swain, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: I'm a theatre director; Interview with Irving Wardle, critic: the history of the director; Interview with Walter Meierjohann, director: German theatre and directing; Interview with Clare Shucksmith, director and producer: directing and producing at the Edinburgh fringe; Chapter Two: The director and the actor; Interview with Annie Tyson, actor and teacher of acting: actor training; Interview with Sarah Esdaile, director: creating your own directing approaches; Chapter Three: The director and the author.…”
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Dance on. produced by Video Workshop for Dance and Theatre ; director, James Chladek.

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Dance on. produced by Video Workshop for Dance and Theatre ; director, William Hohauser.

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Off-Broadway / Off-West End : American influence on the alternative theatre movement in Britain 1956-1980 / David Weinberg. by Weinberg, David (Theatre director)

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Another week, another workshop / producers, Allison Webber & Wan Smolbag Theatre ; director, John Anderson.

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Getting directions : a fly-on-the-wall guide for emerging theatre directors / Russ Hope ; foreword by Dominic Cooke. by Hope, Russ

The Creativity of Social Dreaming. by Lawrence, Gordon

Table of Contents: “…COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Working note on Social Dreamingand creativity -- Gordon Lawrence; CHAPTER TWO: Social Dreaming to creativity -- Francis Oeser; CHAPTER THREE: Image to gesture: Social Dreaming with student theatre directors -- Laurie Slade; CHAPTER FOUR: A master plan experience with Social Dreaming -- Domenico Agresta and Eleonora Planera; CHAPTER FIVE: Low-shot on reality: Dreaming in aprimary school -- Laura Selvaggi; CHAPTER SIX: The slavery in the mind: Inhibition and exhibition -- Julian Manley.…”
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Costume since 1945 : historical dress from couture to street style / Deirdre Clancy. by Clancy Steer, Deirdre

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword to the first edition by Adrian Noble, Theatre Director, UK -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- 1. 1945-50: Peace and the New Look -- 2. 1950-55: Paris Rules -- 3. 1955-60: The Rise of the Teenager -- 4. 1960-65: The Kennedy Years -- 5. 1965-70: Vietnam vs Flower Power -- 6. 1970-75: Retromania -- 7. 1975-80: The Rise of the New Woman -- 8. 1980-85: Swing to the Right -- 9. 1985-90: Power Dress and the New Man -- 10. 1990-95: Pluralism -- 11. 1995-2000: Revivals and Casual Chic -- 12. 2000-05: Transition and Complexity -- 13. 2005-Present: Effortless and Easy -- Postscript -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Games for actors and non-actors / Augusto Boal ; translated by Adrian Jackson. by Boal, Augusto

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Puro teatro : a Latina anthology / edited by Alberto Sandoval-Sβnchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach.

Table of Contents: “…/ Silviana Wood -- Fuchsia / Janis Astor del Valle -- Nostalgia maldita: 1-900-MEXICO : a Stairmaster piece / Yareli Arizmendi -- Good grief, Lolita / Wilma Bonet -- A roomful of men: a radio for the eyes performance piece / Amparo García Crow -- Describe your work / Monica Palacios -- Battle-worn / Laura Esparza -- Dancing with the voice of truth / María Mar -- Searching for sanctuaries: cruising through town in a red convertible / Diane Rodríguez -- Home, desire, memory: there are no borders here / Caridad Svich -- Tales of a south-of-the-border/north-of-the-stereotype theatre director / Susana Tubert -- Catching the next play: the joys and perils of playwriting…”

The Cambridge introduction to theatre directing / Christopher Innes, Maria Shevtsova. by Innes, Christopher, 1941-, Shevtsova, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Traditional staging and the evolution of the director; Classical Greek theatre: director as choreographer; From Greece to Classical Rome; Medieval European staging; Playwright-managers: Renaissance and early seventeenth-century theatre; The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Enlightenment and the actor-manager; Introducing scenery: Philip Jacques de Loutherbourg; Henry Irving: the nineteenth-century actor-manager; The transition from traditional staging; The German stage and the function of the Intendant…”
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Refugee Performance : Practical Encounters / edited by Michael Balfour.

Table of Contents: “…A Personal and Poetic Exploration of Homecomings, Departures and Arrivals from a Theatre Director Who Fled Iraq in 1987 and Returns Home Again -- On Stitches -- Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture -- Play Extract: Forged in Fire -- Narrative Theatre as an Interactive Community Approach to Mobilizing Collective Action in Northern Uganda -- Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern Uganda -- Encounters in the Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine: Travel Notes on Attending Alrowwad Theatre's Production of Handala (2011) -- Rape as War Strategy: A Drama from Croatia -- Far Away, So Close: Psychosocial and Theatre Activities with Serbian Refugees -- Play Extract: Refugees -- 'Politics Begins as Ethics': Levinasian Ethics and Australian Performance Concerning Refugees -- Refugee Performance: Encounters with Alterity -- Repeat Performance: Dancing DiDinga with the Lost Boys of Southern Sudan -- Theatre as a Healing Space: Ping Chong's Children of War -- Drama and Citizenship Education: Tensions of Creativity, Content and Cash -- Inclusive Democracy: A Consideration of Playback Theatre with Refugee and Asylum Seekers in Australia -- Hospitable Stages and Civil Listening: Being an Audience for Participatory Refugee Theatre.…”
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Theatre of the unimpressed : revitalizing drama through artistic risk and failure / Jordan Tannahill. by Tannahill, Jordan

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Person place thing. with Randy Cohen ; producer, Scott Frost.

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Robots vs. art / Travis Cotton. by Cotton, Travis

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Dao entrepreneurship : Westwood, Wilson, and Bergson on business, art and aesthetics / by Clemens Thornquist. by Thornquist, Clemens

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