Stages to Performance: In the Rehearsal Room

Ronan Paterson

Details

ISBN: 978-1-904794-30-1
RRP: £17.99
Released: 31 October 2011
Format: Paperback
Extent: 208pp
Illustrations:  (TBA)

Book Overview
A great stage performance is usually achieved through high practice standards in rehearsal.

In a series of engaging case studies exploring how actors and directors work, this authoritative volume, written by some of the world's leading pioneers in the field, takes the reader into that most sacred of spaces and gives a unique insight into theatre making at its best.

Covering a wide range of practice from the traditions of Commedia de'll Arte to contemporary reworkings of Shakespeare, cutting edge performance and applied theatre, this book examines the work of modern influential figures such as Ferruccio Soleri, Ann Bogart and Malachi Bogdanov.

Invaluable to all drama students and teachers at school, college or university, theatre professionals and anyone with a passionate interest in this most ephemeral of art forms.

About the Author
Ronan Paterson has worked in professional theatre for 39 years, as an actor, director, producer and writer. Starting his career in Ireland, he has worked for more than 150 theatre, film and television companies, and his theatre work has been seen in Norway, Sweden, Greece, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as well as the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland.

He has taught in a range of Universities, colleges and conservatoires, including the University of Winchester, Bath Spa University, Queen Margaret’s University Edinburgh, Newcastle College and others.

He is currently Head of Performing Arts at the University of Teesside.