Jens Roselt

A handbook and reading book featuring annotated original texts by significant directors. This volume gathers foundational texts that clarify how directing has evolved over the past 250 years from a craft to an artistic practice. The selected texts come from renowned theater makers who have worked as directors and reflect on their practical knowledge. They explore the rules and principles of their own practice. With texts by Adolphe Appia, Edward Gordon Craig, Konstantin Stanislavski, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Leopold Jessner, Max Reinhardt, Gustav Gründgens, Bertolt Brecht, Richard Schechner, Anne Bogart, Katie Mitchell, and other theater scholars, playwrights, and translators.