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The celebrated director discusses the techniques of his craft and presents his own directing notes for ten major productions (view table of contents)

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9780025264106 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1972, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The celebrated director discusses the techniques of his craft and presents his own directing notes for ten of his major productions

Paperback:

9780684826226 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The celebrated director discusses the techniques of his craft and presents his own directing notes for ten major productions

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Product Description: Clear and concise advice on staging a theatrical production. After a review of past theories, the author examines facets of the job dealing with script, casting, performers, rehearsals, the audiences' expectations, and the theatre's suitability for the play...read more

Hardcover:

9780720605570 | Dufour Editions, June 1, 1980, cover price $24.75

Paperback:

9780720606881 | Reissue edition (Peter Owen Ltd, December 1, 1994), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Clear and concise advice on staging a theatrical production.

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Product Description: “Not a mirror but a magnifying glass”—such, in the poet Mayakovsky’s words, was the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. The first to insist on the primacy of the director’s role, indeed the first to conceive of it as a role, this passionately dedicated Russian director tore down the fourth wall and forced the actors and audience together into one inescapable community of experience...read more

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9780292750586 | Univ of Texas Pr, February 1, 1981, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: “Not a mirror but a magnifying glass”—such, in the poet Mayakovsky’s words, was the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold.

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9780809308859 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $100.00

Product Description: First published in 1981, Michael Patterson's was the first book in any language to be devoted to the work of Germany's leading theatre director. Peter Stein's thoughtful and critical approach to a variety of dramatic texts - from Irish comedy to German classics, where his reputation largely rests - has resulted in a range of different acting and formal styles and some major textual adaptations...read more

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9780521224420 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $42.50 | also contains This Now Is Eternity: 21 Ancient Meditations for Awakening to Whom You Really Are | About this edition: First published in 1981, Michael Patterson's was the first book in any language to be devoted to the work of Germany's leading theatre director.

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Beginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Artuaud and Grotowski. Braun's guide is more practical than theoretical, delineating how each director changed the tradition that came before him.

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9780841908000 | Holmes & Meier Pub, June 1, 1982, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Beginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Artuaud and Grotowski.

Paperback:

9780413463005, titled "The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski" | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 1, 2003, cover price $21.95
9780841908017, titled "The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski" | Holmes & Meier Pub, June 1, 1982, cover price $13.75

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9780389203049 | Barnes & Noble Imports, August 1, 1982, cover price $43.50

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Product Description: Max Reinhardt (1873-1943), one of the major theatre figures of the twentieth century, was among the first to establish the importance of the director in modern theatre. His fame outside Germany rests somewhat unfairly on his distorted image as producer of giant, Gothic spectacles staged in vast auditoria or cathedral squares...read more

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9780521224444 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Max Reinhardt (1873-1943), one of the major theatre figures of the twentieth century, was among the first to establish the importance of the director in modern theatre.

Paperback:

9780521295048 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 1982), cover price $39.99

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Stressing imagination rather than imitation, techniques for script interpretation, stage composition, directing and styling plays are offered

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9780131909267 | 2 sub edition (Prentice Hall, September 1, 1983), cover price $127.20 | About this edition: Stressing imagination rather than imitation, techniques for script interpretation, stage composition, directing and styling plays are offered

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Product Description: Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater was the most celebrated and influential of the experimental companies that rocked American theatre in the 1960s. His work in that group and since has affected not only the face but the spirit of American theatre...read more

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9780521242981 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $64.95 | also contains Sophistication Is Overrated | About this edition: Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater was the most celebrated and influential of the experimental companies that rocked American theatre in the 1960s.

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9780521285896 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $21.95

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Book by John W. Kirk

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9781413450828 | Xlibris Corp, December 22, 2004, cover price $31.99
9781413452174 | Xlibris Corp, September 7, 2004, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Book by John W.

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9781413450811 | Xlibris Corp, December 22, 2004, cover price $21.99
9780962740206 | Ad Hoc Productions, December 1, 1989, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Book by Kirk, John W.
9780534038915 | Wadsworth Pub Co, November 1, 1984, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Everything you wanted to know about how to direct plays.

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9780132149099 | Facsimile edition (Prentice Hall, November 1, 1984), cover price $185.00

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Product Description: This critical study of Peter Brook attempts a comprehensive survey of the director's long and distinguished career in theatre and in film from his early years as boy wonder of the commercial British stage through his inventive years as a Shakespeare director and innovative film-maker to his recent Parisian collective experimenta- tions where he seeks to enlarge the boundaries of theatre for performers and audiences alike...read more

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9780820401164 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 1, 1985, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This critical study of Peter Brook attempts a comprehensive survey of the director's long and distinguished career in theatre and in film from his early years as boy wonder of the commercial British stage through his inventive years as a Shakespeare director and innovative film-maker to his recent Parisian collective experimenta- tions where he seeks to enlarge the boundaries of theatre for performers and audiences alike.

Gives advice on selecting a play, auditioning a cast, and creating a stage space, shows how to conduct acting workshops, and demonstrates rehearsal techniques (view table of contents)

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9780810140011 | Northwestern Univ Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $38.00

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9780810140028 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gives advice on selecting a play, auditioning a cast, and creating a stage space, shows how to conduct acting workshops, and demonstrates rehearsal techniques

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Product Description: A practical guide for Actors, Teachers and Directors.

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9780918024381 | Ox Bow Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A practical guide for Actors, Teachers and Directors.

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Product Description: This book traces the evolution of John Barton, one of this century's most important directors, from his days as a Cambridge student and scholar through his career with the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company. Two lengthy interviews with Barton are included, as well as a number of rare pictures of his Cambridge work and representative pictures from his Royal Shakespeare Company productions...read more

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9780874132649 | Univ of Delaware Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book traces the evolution of John Barton, one of this century's most important directors, from his days as a Cambridge student and scholar through his career with the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company.

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A successful stage director recounts his childhood in Russia, his education at Cornell, and his work with Beckett, Albee, and Pinter

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9780670806089 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A successful stage director recounts his childhood in Russia, his education at Cornell, and his work with Beckett, Albee, and Pinter

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9780879100674 | Limelight Editions, August 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A successful stage director recounts his childhood in Russia, his education at Cornell, and his work with Beckett, Albee, and Pinter

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Traces the life of the famous Russian actor and producer who developed his own approach to acting and describes the influence of his productions

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9780571137916 | Reissue edition (Faber & Faber, January 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the famous Russian actor and producer who developed his own approach to acting and describes the influence of his productions

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