Description: This book offers a re-thinking of how theatre-making might be understood as a "skilled" craft and process, exploring how professional contexts allow skill as a competence to emerge in a multitude of ways, rather than be acquired.
Brief description: Adam Ledger is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on performance practices, including The Director and Directing: Craft, Process and Aesthetic in Contemporary Theatre and on Eugenio Barba for the Great European Stage Directors series (Methuen Drama, 2018).
Review Quotes: "This text is beautifully written by an author with an impressive oeuvre. Examples from modern practitioners and productions that were unique in their creative process help reinforce the arguments ... This is theatrical theory at its finest and will be talked about in classes and in practice for years to come." --Choice