Fifty key Theatre directors

This book covers the life and work of individuals who have been deeply influential to the development of theatre and its specialist authors combine theory and practice to provide insightful overviews of the individual directors' approaches. Directors include: Anne Bogart, Peter Brook, Lev Dodin, Declan Donnellan, Jerzy Grotowski, Elizabeth LeCompte, Joan Littelwood, Ariane Mnouchkine, Tadashi Suzuki, Pina Bausch, Augusto Boal, Peter Stein, Lee Strasberg, Erwin Piscator, and Peter Sellars. Each entry discusses a director's key productions, ideas and rehearsal methods, effectively combining theory and practice. Shomit Mitter is the author of Systems of Rehearsal (Routledge, 1992); Maria Shevtsova is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London and author of Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre (Routledge, 2004).