The Routledge Companion to Performance Practiti, Chamberlain, Swee HB..

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The Routledge Companion to Performance PractitionersVolume One\nAuthor(s): Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367417321, 978-0367417321\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nEach 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 how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. \n\nAll 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born before the end of the First World War. This is the defini.