The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the
outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre
practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance
Practitioners series of guidebooks.
Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure,
from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work
in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their
key productions indicate each practitioner's theoretical approaches to
performance and the performer were manifested in practice.
With all 22 practitioners from the original series represented, this is
the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners
hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or
deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.