This exciting theatre companion, edited by a former literary manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company, includes over 2500 entries that range widely over theatre in the last century. It features not only exceptional scholarly entries, but a series of fascinating boxed essays written by active professional theatre insiders, including Arnold Wesker writing on playwriting, Ben Kingsley on preparing a part, and Daniel Massey on performing Shaw. The Companion is wide-ranging in geographical scope, with entries on “Portuguese-Speaking African Theatre” and “Arab Theatre”, as well as current, with entries on “Digital performance” and the “Internet”. This is a must-have resource for anyone interested in theatre, professionals, amateurs, and scholars alike.
Colin Chambers, formerly a journalist, theater critic and Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1981―97), is Reader in Drama at Kingston University. His books include
Other Spaces: New Theatre and the RSC (1980),
The Story of Unity Theatre (1989) and the award-winning
Peggy: the Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent (1997).
e-reference edition ISBN: 9780199754724
Print edition ISBN: 9781847140012
Print edition publication date:
2006
Publishing history: First published 2002
Copyright: © Continuum 2002, 2006
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