Who Is In the Room?: Queer Strategies for Redefining the Role of the Theater Director

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Brooke O'Harra

Who Is In the Room?

Queer Strategies for Redefining the Role of the Theater Director

Brooke O'Harra

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Routledge
25 September 2024

Performance art; Theatre direction & production

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O’Harra drives the art of directing forward.

O’Harra investigates a series of important questions: How do we wrest our work from institutional imperatives of public building and culture building? How can an artist-driven discourse lead us toward the urgencies of artists and their publics in this moment? How do we “make” plays? How do we activate the relationships of making, whether between artists in the rehearsal room or between the production and the audience? Brooke addresses all aspects of the directorial process: reckoning with the script through dramaturgy, working within the rehearsal room, collaborating with other artists, as well as staging and production.

This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies with a particular interest in directing.

By: Brooke O'Harra
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032182032
ISBN 10: 1032182032
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 25 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Preface Essay One. I’m Bleeding All Over the Place: Queer Auteur Director Card Catalog Essay Two. Brings Us Together and Keeps Us Apart Essay Three. Deep Listening, or I Can’t Tell You How To Do That Play Essay Four. Who is Joan Littlewood? Or The Impossibility of the Auteur Essay Five. Actors! Let them be Astonishing Essay Six. The Education of the Director (In Three Parts) Your UNTEXTBOOK Index

Brooke O’Harra teaches acting and directing, queer performance practices, and experimental playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.