TNT The New Theatre lessons, techniques and ideas for making new theatre for a changing world from the most widely travelled theatre that ever packed a bag

This long-awaited new book is an extraordinary, wide-ranging, funny, and clever account of 40 years in the life of the most successful touring theatre company of all time. The authors dance between magical storytelling...offering a masterclass on the skills and practice of acting, directing, and writing for theatre, considering the role of theatre in different countries and continents, and offering a eye-opening history of TNT.

Dr. Phil Smith is a performance-maker, writer, and academic researcher, specialising in work around walking, site-specificity, mythogeographies, and counter-tourism. With artist Helen Billinghurst, he is one half of Crab & Bee, who have recently completed an exhibition and walking project called ‘Plymouth Labyrinth (funded by Arts Council England), a short walking project in the Isles of Scilly and a residency at Teats Hill slipway. They are currently engaged in a series of walks across the UK researching their forthcoming book, The Pattern (2020). With Tony Whitehead and photographer John Schott, Phil recently published Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage with Triarchy Press. As company dramaturg and co-writer for TNT Theatre (Munich), he most recently premiered Free Mandela, co-authored with TNT’s artistic director Paul Stebbings. Paul Stebbings was born in Nottingham. He studied Drama at Bristol University and trained in the Grotowski method in Britain and Poland. After directing and acting professionally he founded TNT Theatre with Phil Smith in 1980. He began directing Shakespeare’s major works in 2001. He has also directed independently in theatres as diverse as the St Petersburg State Comedy Theatre, the Athens Concert Hall, the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, Teatro Espressivo de Costa Rica, and the Munich Glyptothek, all in languages other than English. Paul is the author or co-author (with Phil Smith) of over thirty plays or adaptations of novels. In 2014 Paul was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth for services to British culture. Paul lives in Munich and is married to the TV producer Angelika Stebbings.