Re: Direction

Worlds of Performance

by Gabrielle Cody (Editor), Rebecca Schneider (Editor)

Re: Direction is a resource for practitioners and students on directing. It provides a collection of interviews, primary sources and essays on 20th century directing theories and practices around the world. Organized into four key areas of the subject, the book explores: theories of directing; the boundaries of the director's role; the limits of categorization; and the history of the theatre and performance art.

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Kari Barclay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing things about the theater director’s gaze and the anthropologist’s gaze—Schneider and Cody’s framing is brilliant and in so few words offers provocations about directing that get talked about so rarely!