The Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre

Written by one of the UK'¬"s most respected working directors, this book is a practical guide to directing in theatre. Based on her experiences of holding workshops for drama students, A-Level students, and undergraduates, this is a practical beginner'¬"s guide to the process, with specific advice on every aspect of working with actors, designers, and the text. The book includes discursive material about Mitchell'¬"s own learning process, including: entries from her working diaries descriptions of encounters with her own role models: Brook, Suzuki, Staniewski, Dodin musings on significant influences on her own practice such as the films of Tarkovsky.