1st Edition
Rehearsing Shakespeare Ways of Approaching Shakespeare in Practice for Actors, Directors and Trainers
1. Beginnings 2. Acting company preparation 3. Language 4. Translation 5. Collaboration 6. Rehearsals processes
Biography
Leon Rubin is Professor and Former Director of East 15 Acting School, University of Essex. He was the Head of Drama at Middlesex University; Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic, Watford Palace Theatre and Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC); Associate at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and has directed for major theatre companies internationally. He has directed 17 productions of Shakespeare (three in languages other than English) and plays by Johnson, Webster and Marlowe and was RSC assistant director on another four. He has taught acting and directing for over 35 years.
"A useful volume then this Rehearsing Shakespeare, a most sensible and sensitive guide for directors and actors finding themselves working in both academic and/or cross-cultural settings." - Don Rubin, York University (Toronto)
