Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting; directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the worlds great theatre artists combine collaboration with leadership at all levels; from a productions conception to its final performance. This book challenges the notion that creating brilliant theatrical productions requires tyrannical directors or temperamental designers. Viewing the theatrical production process from the perspectives of the producer; director; playwright; actor; designer; stage manager; dramaturg and crew person; Cohen provides the techniques; exercises and language that promote successful collaborative skills in the theatre. Collaboration is vital to successful theatre making and Working Together in Theatre is the first book to show how leadership and collaboration can be combined to make every theatrical production far greater than the sum of its many parts.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Rediscovery of Dziga Vertov as Father of DocumentaryBy BunuelRecent academic writings on documentary have become bogged down in mind-numbing post modern debates about the impossibility of ever capturing reality; and; ergo; the impossibility of documentary. In the process;a century of documentary practise and tradition has been forgotten; not to mention the growing number of cinephiles who find documentaries both relevant and rewarding. Jeremy Hicks is a Russian scholar from England; and he has provided the perfect assault on the ivory tower with this clear and concise elegy to the man who arguably created the documentary genre - the Soviet genius Dziga Vertov. Benefitting from new Russian research on Vertov and Russian culture pre-Stalin; Hicks makes a strong case for Vertovs relevance to a new generation of digital documentarians.