Directing Books

New and Published Books

1. The Casting Handbook

   For Film and Theatre Makers

   By Suzy Catliff, Jennifer Granville

   Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are often overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the casting process from beginning to end and covers everything producers and directors needs to know – as...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Ensemble Theatre Making

   A Practical Guide

   By Rose Burnett Bonczek, David Storck

   Ensemble Theatre Making: A Practical Guide is the first comprehensive diagnostic handbook for building, caring for, and maintaining an ensemble. Successful ensembles don’t happen by chance; they must be created, nurtured, and maintained through specific actions. Achieving common goals in rehearsal...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre

   By Stephen Di Benedetto

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior. He presents a basic summary of the ways that...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
4. Being a Director

   A Life in Theatre

   By Di Trevis

   Di Trevis is a world-renowned director, whose work with Britain’s National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and directing productions worldwide, has deeply informed her knowledge of the director’s craft. In Being a Director, she draws on a wealth of first-hand experience to present an immersive...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare

   Edited by John Russell Brown

   The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre’s most talented directors have brought Shakespeare’s texts to the stage. Each chapter has a revealing story...

   Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
6. Contemporary European Theatre Directors

   Edited by Maria M. Delgado, Dan Rebellato

   'An invaluable book that we shall all be using for a long time to come' - Michael Billington Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years. It is a vivid account of the vast range...

   Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
7. Tadeusz Kantor

   By Noel Witts

   Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners

   Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Tadeusz Kantor was a key figure in European...

   Published November 24th 2009 by Routledge
8. On Directing and Dramaturgy

   Burning the House

   By Eugenio Barba

   "A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of groups, trained for a long time....." - from the Introduction On Directing is Eugenio Barba's...

   Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
9. The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre

   By Scott Graham, Steven Hoggett

   Acclaimed by audiences and critics for their highly innovative and adventurous theatre, Frantic Assembly have created playful, intelligent and dynamic productions for over fourteen years. Written by artistic directors Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising...

   Published April 16th 2009 by Routledge
10. Stanislavsky in Focus

    An Acting Master for the Twenty-First Century, 2nd Edition

    By Sharon Marie Carnicke

    Stanislavsky in Focus brilliantly examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavsky’s 'System', separating myth from fact with forensic skill. The first edition of this now classic study showed conclusively how the 'System' was gradually transformed into the Method, popularised in the 1950s...

    Published August 31st 2008 by Routledge