I. Theatre and Its Audience
1. Cultural Collaboration: Theatre and Society
Theatre as Entertainment and Art
Exploring Cultural and Historical Perspectives: The Lure of Safe Conduct and Invisible Rabbits
The Social Functions of Theatre
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Theatre of War
Exploring Artists of the Theatre: National Theatre of the Deaf
Social Control of Theatre
Exploring Collaboration: Citizen Play Juries
Theatrical Choice in North America
Cultural Context and Personal Experience
2. Experiencing Theatre: Collaboration of Actor, Audience, and Space
The Audience
Exploring Collaboration: Spatial Collaboration: Commune and Pinocchio
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Brecht versus Wagner
The Nature of Acting
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Hypokrites to Actor
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Makeup as Mask: Kathakali
From Play to Production
Space
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Drottningholm Court Theatre
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Stratford Festival Theatre
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Performing Garage
Theatre and Transformation
3. Analyzing Theatre: Thinking and Writing about Live Performance
Theatre, Film, and Television
Analyzing Production
Thinking about Actor Performances
Thinking about Space and Design
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Effect of Audience Space on Angels in America
Understanding Style
Evaluating Production
The Role of the Critic
Writing about Production
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Theatre or Theater? It Is More Than a Building
When It All Works
4. Understanding the Play: A Theatrical Blueprint
Plot
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Deus ex Machina
Character
Thought
Language
Exploring Collaboration: Improvised Text
Music
Spectacle
5. Interpreting the Play: Understanding Genre, Reading, and Writing
Dramatic Genre
Reading a Play
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Those Problematic Stage Directions
Writing about a Play
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Juliet Was a Guy in Drag? Changing Theatrical Conventions
Photo Gallery: Theatrical Diversity
II. COLLABORATION IN ART AND PRACTICE
6. The Director: Vision and Leadership
Has Someone Always Been in Charge?
Interpretation
Developing Concept
Artists of the Theatre: Peter Brook
Communicating and Managing the Artistic Vision
Collaborating with the Playwright
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Who Owns the Work?
Directors and Absent Playwrights
Collaborating with Designers
Collaborating with Actors
Exploring Collaboration: Metamorphoses
Artists of the Theatre: George C. Wolfe
Collaborating with the Stage Manager
The Rehearsal Process
Opening the Production
7. The Actor: From Mask to Contemporary Performance
Development of the Actor
Artists of the Theatre: Bernadette Peters
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Contemporary Cross-Dressing
Acting Styles and Methods
Artists of the Theatre: James Earl Jones
The Actor's Work
Exploring Collaboration: Actors as Collaborators
8. The Playwright: Imagination and Expression
The Changing Position of the Playwright
Artists of the Theatre: Suzan-Lori Parks
The Playwright and Production
Exploring Collaboration: The Sondheim/Lapine Collaboration
Artists of the Theatre: Michael Frayn
Development of New Plays
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Exploring Collaboration: The Rent Controversy
9. The Designer: Materializing Conception and the World of the Play
The Development of the Designer
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Development of the Revolve
The Designers' Choices
Artists of the Theatre: Ming Cho Lee
The Scenic Designer's Work
Exploring Collaboration: Robert Edmund Jones with Arthur Hopkins
The Lighting Designer's Work
Artists of the Theatre: Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer
The Costumer Designer's Work
Artists of the Theatre: William Ivey Long
The Sound Designer's Work
Integrating All the Designs
10. The Producer: Coordination, Promotion, Economics
Early Producers
The Role of the Producer
Artists of the Theatre: Harold Prince
The Economics of Theatre
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Stagehands Union 2007 Strike
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Federal Theatre Project
Photo Gallery: Interpreting Space and Design
III. COLLABORATION IN HISTORY
11. Foundations: Classical Theatrical Forms
Classical Greece
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Rediscovering Menander
Classical Rome
Medieval Europe
Exploring Collaboration: The Community, the Church, and the Feast of Corpus Christi
Classical India
Classical China
Classical Japan
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Kabuki Cross-Dressing: The Onnagata
12. Reinterpretations: Europe Rediscovers the Western Classics
The Italian Renaissance
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Renaissance Court Entertainment
Elizabethan England
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Rediscovery of the Rose and Globe Theatres
The Spanish Golden Age
Seventeenth-Century France
Restoration England
Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Americas
Exploring Collaboration: The Hallam Company in the American Colonies: A Family Affair
13. Revolutions: Romanticism to Postmodern Experiment
Romanticism
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Audience Has Its Say: Theatre Riots and Demonstrations
Nineteenth-Century Melodrama
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Nineteenth-Century Women Theatre Managers in Britain and the United States
Nineteenth-Century Realism and Naturalism
The Avant-Garde from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s
Exploring Collaboration: Founding an Alternative Theatre: The Provincetown Players
Modern and Contemporary Popular Theatre
The Recent Avant-Garde and Postmodern Experiment
Key Theatrical Events
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
