Routledge Performance Practitioners Handbooks

Routledge Performance Practitioners Series Editor:Franc Chamberlain

Routledge Performance Practitioners is an innovative series of introductory handbooks on key figures in twentieth-century performance practice.

Each volume focuses on a theatre-maker who has transformed the way we understand theatre and performance. The books are carefully structured to enable the reader to gain a good grasp of the fundamental elements underpinning each practitioner’s work. They provide an inspiring springboard for students on twentieth century, contemporary theatre and theatre history courses.

These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books unravel the contribution of modern theatre’s most charismatic innovators, through:

• personal biography
• explanation of key writings
• description of significant productions
• reproduction of practical exercises.

As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.