1st Edition
Who Is In the Room? Queer Strategies for Redefining the Role of the Theater Director
By Brooke O'Harra
Copyright 2024
122 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O’Harra drives the art of directing forward.
O’Harra investigates a series of important questions: How do we wrest our work from institutional imperatives of public building and culture building? How can an artist-driven discourse lead us toward the urgencies of artists... Read more
Acknowledgements
Preface
Essay One. I’m Bleeding All Over the Place: Queer Auteur Director
Card Catalog
Essay Two. Brings Us Together and Keeps Us Apart
Essay Three. Deep Listening, or I Can’t Tell You How To Do That Play
Essay Four. Who is Joan Littlewood? Or The Impossibility of the Auteur
Essay Five. Actors! Let them be Astonishing
Essay Six. The Education of the Director (In Three Parts)
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Index
Biography
Brooke O’Harra teaches acting and directing, queer performance practices, and experimental playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
