Who Is in the Room? - Queer Strategies for Redefining the Role of the Theater Director

With this book, Brooke O'Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O'Harra drives the art of directing forward.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Essay One. I’m Bleeding All Over the Place: Queer Auteur Director
Card Catalog
Essay Two. Brings Us Together and Keeps Us Apart
Essay Three. Deep Listening, or I Can’t Tell You How To Do That Play
Essay Four. Who is Joan Littlewood? Or The Impossibility of the Auteur
Essay Five. Actors! Let them be Astonishing
Essay Six. The Education of the Director (In Three Parts)
Your UNTEXTBOOK
Index

About the author

Brooke O’Harra teaches acting and directing, queer performance practices, and experimental playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Summary

With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O’Harra drives the art of directing forward.

Product details

• Authors: Brooke O'Harra, Brooke O''harra
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032181974
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3218197-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, ART / Performance, Performance Art, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production, direction;theatre;performance;performing arts