The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

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 how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 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 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.

Franc Chamberlain is Professor of Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK and the series editor for Routledge Performance Practitioners. Bernadette Sweeney is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Theatre & Dance at the University of Montana, USA and co-editor with Franc Chamberlain of the expanded Routledge Performance Practitioners series.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. STANISLAVSKI (1863-1938) 2. MEYERHOLD (1874-1940) 3. COPEAU (1879-1949) 4. LABAN (1879-1958) 5. WIGMAN (1886-1973) 6. CHEKHOV (1891-1955) 7. BRECHT (1898-1956) 8. DECROUX (1898-1991) 9. OHNO (1906-2010) and HIJIKATA (1928-1986) 10. LITTLEWOOD (1914-2002) Index