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Helen Manfull (Author)

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July 1997 1575251027 978-1575251028 First Edition
Representing television drama, the London Fringe, the avant garde, the regional theatre, and the large national theatres -- the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Royal National Theatre- In Other Words traces the training, approaches, prerehearsal processes, rehearsal techniques, and directing philosophies of fourteen women directors who work primarily in the British Isles.

Generously illustrated with photographs of productions under their direction, the thoughts and words of these fourteen determined, creative, and accomplished women offer all of us who labor in and love the theatre a unique perspective that will illuminate, educate, and inspire.


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The title seems to promise that a specifically female esthetic will emerge from these pages. But in her quest to explore the works of British women directors--including Annie Castledine, Phyllida Lloyd, Sue Sutton Mayo, Annabel Arden, Parah Pia Anderson, Katie Mitchell, and others--the ironically-named American author Helen Manfull winds up profiling some of the most brilliant and creative people working in the theater today, male or female, pointing the way to the theater of the 21st century. The volume features a preface by American director Anne Bogart, who could serve as an excellent starting point for a companion volume on Yank directors.

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This resolutely academic examination of the British theater is seen through the eyes of 14 prominent directors working in the United Kingdom. Manfull (coauthor with her husband, Lowell Manfull, of The Stage in Action) takes great pains here to keep to the high road, skirting for the most part all feminist issues for the majority of the sections, and in general allowing these women to concentrate on the creative aspects of theatrical directorship: rehearsal, set design and working with a finished or unfinished script. Several of the directors have children, and a few may have languished in relative obscurity for longer than their male counterparts, yet little of this is brought up, and the author seems satisfied with sticking to the business at hand. The assembled names will mean little to any but the most avid theatergoers and the most Anglophilic of American readers. There are dull sections offering advice to young women that go little beyond suggesting that one attend a good university. Falling into the category of the scholarly but not especially insightful, the book is an admirable work that fails to merit serious recommendation. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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