Theatre Craft

John Caird

Theatre Craft: A Director’s Practical Companion from A to Z, by John Caird, is a definitive guide to contemporary theatre practice from the world-renowned director.

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571237371
Date Published
18.03.2010
Delivery
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Summary

‘This book is written with such humour and common sense that I may have to carry it around with me all the time.’ JUDI DENCH

A definitive guide to contemporary theatre practice from a world-renowned director.

Theatre Craft is an all-encompassing, practical guide for anyone working in the theatre, from the enthusiastic amateur to the committed professional. With entries arranged alphabetically, Theatre Craft offers advice on all areas of directing, from Acting, Adaptation, and Accent to Sound Effects, Superstition, Trap Doors and Wardrobe.

Enlightening and entertaining by turns, the celebrated director John Caird shares his profound knowledge of the stage to provide an invaluable companion to anyone creating a play, musical or opera. Whatever the theatre space – the backroom of a bar, a studio theatre, or the biggest stages of the West End or Broadway – this authoritative volume is an essential reference tool for the modern theatre practitioner.

Internationally renowned theatre director John Caird has directed and adapted countless productions of plays, operas, and musicals for the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, in the West End, and on Broadway – from Les Misérables and Nicholas Nickleby to Hamlet and Peter Pan.

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John Caird is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm and a freelance theatre, opera and musical theatre director and librettist working regularly at the National Theatre in London, in the West End, on Broadway and all around the world. As well as directing numerous productions of classic plays…

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