This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in Europ

Directors have long been the main figures on Eastern European stages. During the last three decades some of the most outstanding among them have risen to intern

Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the

As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study devel

Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The i