Notes from the Back Row: A Voice and Text Director's Journal

by Scott Kaiser

In his latest book, Shakespeare expert Scott Kaiser offers a rare glimpse at the inner workings of America’s premier classical repertory theatre—the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. A chronicle of his daily collaborations with actors, directors, and playwrights as a voice and text specialist, Kaiser’s journal offers an insider’s view of the highs and lows of creating world-class theatre during the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 1996 season—a year filled with profound artistic challenges and institutional growing pains.

149 pages, Paperback

Published August 19, 2020

About the author

SCOTT KAISER is a nationally recognized master teacher of acting and voice, as well as a director, playwright, and author. For 28 seasons, Scott served as a member of the artistic staff at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, where he directed, adapted, coached, or performed in all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays. Scott is the author of more than a dozen books on Shakespeare, including Have Shakespeare, Will Travel; The Tao of Shakespeare; Shakespeare’s Wordcraft; and Mastering Shakespeare: An Acting Class in Seven Scenes. He has also penned several original plays, including Falstaff in Love, Love’s Labor’s Won, Now This, and Shakespeare’s Other Women: A New Anthology of Monologues.