Theatre/Directing Reading List

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3 participants (48 books)

Overview

Books about the craft of theatre, with a focus on directing. Occasionally will add some film books of interest too.

Challenge Books

Different Every Night: Freeing the Actor by Mike Alfreds

Different Every Night: Freeing the Actor

Mike Alfreds

To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov

To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting

Michael Chekhov

Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel

Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic

Glenn Frankel

Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

Fast Times and Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie by James King

Fast Times and Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie

James King

The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate by Peter Brook

The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

Peter Brook

Dramaturgy: The Basics by Walter Byongsok Chon, Anne M. Hamilton

Dramaturgy: The Basics

Walter Byongsok Chon, Anne M. Hamilton

The Basics: Play Directing by Damon Kiely

The Basics: Play Directing

Damon Kiely

The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud

The Theater and Its Double

Antonin Artaud

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin

Theatre of the Absurd

Martin Esslin

Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind

Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Peter Biskind