2007 -- Dramatic Literature (Fall) -- Bedford INTRO 2008 -- The plays... I am an ex-playwright. I like it even more now -- the structure of plays. The architecture of drama. Only art, not science, can ask for so much craft. Technology has the bottom level in its complexity, but the great art -- never. Shakespeare, Chekhov, Williams -- more understanding brings more complexity. I always feel sad on the openning night, I know that other project is ahead and I have no time to think more about the play, to live with it... I know that we won't see each other again, but I say -- till next time. Unlikely I will direct the same script again, I never did, but the departure is sad, because there is so much left to learn about this wonder -- a play. It has to be a good play. There are many I know. If I want to stage it again, I know that the play has future -- somebody will direct it for me... Of course, there are many theories behind the simplicy of ordinary words and characters... Book Pages: Acting Improv Monologue I Mono II Reference Books T-Books Theatre Bookshelf For the lists of recommended reading see classes! * In addition to the books Aristotle related, look at J. Michael Walton's _Living Greek Theatre_. There are sections on Plato, Aristotle, et al. ... Notes The Possessed 2008 -- Stoppard "R/G are Dead" my eGroups The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-One Plays from the Drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, from 500 B.C. to 1879 A.D by Brander Matthews; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916 - Agamemnon - Œdipus the King - Medea - The Frogs - The Captives (captivi) - Phormio - The Star of Seville (la Estrella De Sevilla) - Life is a Dream (la Vida Es SueÑo) - The Cid - Tartuffe - PhÆedra (phedre) - The Barber of Seville (le Barbier De Seville) - Hernani - The Son-In-Law of M. Poirier (le Gendre De M. Poirier) - The Outer Edge of Society (le Demi-Monde) - The Mistress of the Inn (la Locandiera) - Minna Von Barnhelm - Goetz Von Berlichingen With the Iron Hand - William Tell - Rasmus Montanus - A Doll's House (et Dukkehjem) Theatre on the Web:

Dramatic Theory Books

Modern Theories of Drama: A Selection of Writings on Drama and Theatre 1850-1990 :

Of course, this is "a short list" and I do not know when I will have time to update it, or to write reviews. Best I can do is to mark the titles with the stars (***** -- highly recommended, five). Most of the books on the market are of questinable quality, but I let my students in Fundamentals of Acting to use everything. (What do you do if they didn't read any theatre books?)
Some I leave without rating, if I don't know them or have no opinion.

Do your have Theatre site? Sent it to OPEN DIRECTORY: Theatre: Directing (I'll review the site and list it).
Also, Film Theory & Criticism (submit your URLs for a review).

Videos I use in classes (Film&Drama, DramLit, Film Directing, Visions of the Northern Mind) are @ Big Star Affiliate!

Kabuki Theatre

Earie Ernest, et al, Paper 1974 ****

Kabuki-Backstage, Onstage: An Actor's Life

Matazo Nakamura, Mark Oshima (Translator) Hardcover 1990

Kenneth Tynan: Letters

Kenneth Tynan, ka Tynan Hardcover 1998

The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams

Donald Spoto, Paper 1997 **

Barnes&Noble / Amazon / Borders

[I have to build Dramatic Theory Books page, what you see is Msc. Listing]

Theatre/Theory: An Introduction :

From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play by Victor Turner :

I hope some the big affiliate sites (Barnes&Noble, Amazon) can come with the auto-selection and than I will put togther the page of plays.

Read script, I say again.

Read good plays!

And all your questions about your professional future will be answered.

Trust me.

Do you know HOW to read plays?

The Anthropology of Performance by Victor Turner : Between Theater and Anthropology by Richard Schechner : B&R Samizdat Express: Internet trends -- reading, fiction: Website of Richard Zelter, who got me started with the Internet three years ago.

Performance Theory (Routledgeclassics) by Richard Schechner :