1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice

Edited By Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney Copyright 2021
646 Pages 94 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

646 Pages 94 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

646 Pages 94 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice is a unique, indispensable guide to the training methods of the world’s key theatre practitioners. Compiling the practical work outlined in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks, each set of exercises has been edited and contextualised by an expert in that particular approach. Each chapter provides a... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1. STANISLAVSKI (1863-1938) – Bella Merlin

2. MEYERHOLD (1874-1940) – Jonathan Pitches

3. COPEAU (1879-1949) – Mark Evans

4. LABAN (1879-1958) – Karen K. Bradley

5. WIGMAN (1886 -1973) -- Mary Anne Santos Newhall

6. CHEKHOV (1891 -1955) – Franc Chamberlain

7. BRECHT (1898 -1956) – Meg Mumford

8. DECROUX (1898- 1991) – Thomas Leabhart

9. OHNO (1906-2010) and HIJIKATA (1928-1986) -- Sondra Fraleigh and Tamah Nakamura

10. LITTLEWOOD (1914 -2002) – Nadine Holdsworth

11. KANTOR (1915-1990) – Noel Witts

12. HALPRIN (b.1920) -- Libby Worth and Helen Poynor

13. LECOQ (1921-1999) -- Simon Murray and Thomas Prattki

14. BOAL (1931-2009) -- Frances Babbage

15. GROTOWSKI (1933-1999) James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta

16. BARBA (b1936) -- Jane Turner

17. MNOUCHKINE (b. 1939) -- Helen Richardson with Judith G. Miller

18. BAUSCH (1940-2009) -- Royd Climenhaga

19. WILSON (b.1941) -- Maria Shevtsova

20. ABRAMOVIC (b.1946) --Mary Richards

21. LEPAGE (b. 1957) -- Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović

Biography

Franc Chamberlain is Professor Emeritus of Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK and the co-editor of the Routledge Performance Practitioners series.

Bernadette Sweeney is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Theatre & Dance at the University of Montana, USA and co-editor with Franc Chamberlain of the expanded Routledge Performance Practitioners series.