Bücher von Gabriella Giannachi

The profession of directing is barely a century old. On Directing considers the position of the director in theater and performance today. What is a director? How do they begin work on a play or performance? What methods are used in rehearsal? Is the director an enabler, a collaborator or dictator? As we enter the new millennium, is the very concept of directing under increasing threat from changes in thinking and practice? The full diversity of today's approaches to directing are explored through a series of interviews with leading contemporary practitioners. On Directing is a landmark book about the director's craft.

*Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated* proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence.

An investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts, this text not only allows for a reinterpretation of what is possible in the world of performance practice, but also demonstrates how "virtuality" has come to represent a major parameter for our understanding and experience of contemporary art and life.