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Routledge Performance Archive - Focus on Droznin

We've extended our focus on Andrei Droznin for two more weeks!

We will be regularly celebrating 'Featured Artists' on the RPA news page with snippets of RPA content available for you to view free online for a limited time.
Programming Theater History - Now Available

Herbert Blau founded, with Jules Irving, the legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, in 1952, starting with ten people in a loft above a judo academy. Over the course of the next 13 years and its hundred or so productions, it introduced American audiences to plays by Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, Genet, Arden, Fornes, and various unknown others.

‘One of the great stories of the American theater…, the Workshop not only built an international reputation with its daring choice of plays and nontraditional productions, it also helped launch a movement of regional, or resident, companies that would change forever how Americans thought about and consumed theater.’ – Elin Diamond, from the Introduction
The Casting Handbook

Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are oftentimes overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the casting process from beginning to end and covers everything producers and directors needs to know – as well as proving a fascinating and illuminating read for actors.
Routledge Performance Archive - January Content Update

The Routledge Performance Archive (RPA) is produced in partnership with Digital Theatre, providing unique access to an unprecedented range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance. As a developing resource, which is regularly updated, we have recently added some exciting new content to the site for our subscribers.
The Craft of Comedy

By Athene Seyler and Stephen Haggard

Edited by Robert Barton

'a work on the art and craft of comedy as important in its own way as works by Stanislavski and Chekhov' – Oxford Theatre Companion

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Contemporary Mise en Scène - 20% Off in February

Staging Theatre Today

By Patrice Pavis
Translated by Joel Anderson

Contemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s masterful analysis of the role that staging has played in the creation and practice of theater throughout history.

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Ensemble Theatre Making: A Practical Guide

A Practical Guide

By Rose Burnett Bonczek and David Storck

Now Available

The first comprehensive diagnostic handbook for building, caring for, and maintaining an ensemble.

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Now Available: Yevgeny Vakhtangov

Yevgeny Vakhtangov was a pioneering theater artist who married Stanislavski’s demands for inner truth with a singular imaginative vision. Directly and indirectly, he is responsible for the making of our contemporary theater: that is Andrei Malaev-Babel’s argument in this, the first English-language monograph to consider Vakhtangov’s life and work as actor and director, teacher and theoretician. Read about this new title...
Now Available: The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form. Read More...
Now Available: Embodied Acting

Embodied Acting is an essential, pragmatic intervention in the study of how recent discoveries within cognitive science can – and should – be applied to performance. For too long, a conceptual separation of mind and body has dominated actor training in the West. This revolutionary new volume explores the impact that a more holistic approach to the 'bodymind' can have on the acting process. Learn more..