Directing the Decades: Lessons from Fifty Years of Becoming a Director

ISBN-13: 9780367686550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 394 str.

Sue Dunderdale

Opis

Directing the Decades is an examination of the development of theatre in the UK since the revolution of the 1950s until the present day, viewed through the individual progress of a female director from a working-class background.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Prologue: the wards of the roses 1. The 1950s: George and Joan and Crazy Horse, Chief of the Sue (sic)  2. Rehearsing with Joan  3. The 1960s: What do you want (if you don’t want money)?  4. Action before words: Stanislavski, Littlewood, Grotowski  5. The 1970s: brave new world 1  6. Finding your own way (devising and adapting) Early years (photo gallery): 1953–1979  7. Knocking on doors, right and wrong  8. Women working together: building and breaking out of the ghetto  9. The 1990s: I am a camera  10. Through the camera’s eye  11. Payback time  12. How do we make work with actors?: physicalisation of action Later years (photo gallery): 1980–2018 13. In the end there are many beginnings  14. Future voices: brave new world 2 Index

O autorze

Sue Dunderdale came from a working-class family and studied Drama and English at Manchester University from 1966 to 1971. She has been a director ever since and, in that time, has founded the touring theatre company Pentabus, been the Artistic Director of the Soho Theatre (1984-88) and Greenwich Theatre (1988-89), a director of many television dramas and films, and the Head of MA in Text and Performance, the MA in Directing, and the MA Theatre Lab at RADA (2004-14). Since leaving RADA she has been a freelance director and writer and has run workshops for directors and actors at the London Film School, Actors Studio, Shanghai University, and Head for Heights Theatre Company.