The Great Stage Directors

"The Great Stage Directors" is one of the few comprehensive overviews of this complex artistic craft, leading the reader from early masters such as David Garrick and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to contemporary talents such as Elizabeth LeCompte and Harold Prince. Each of its detailed entries contains a brief biography, a thorough career summary, accounts of major productions, and an investigation into the working methods, stage personality and overall influence on the theatrical world of each director, ranging from farces, classic dramas, absurdist and avant-garde pieces, musicals and much more. International in scope, the collection's entries contain biographical information on individual directors, but also analyze the directors' working methods, styles and stage personality. A useful book for theatre collections now updated, "The Great Stage Directors" also contains extensive further readings and 90 photographs of both historic productions and many directors themselves.