Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre

Acclaimed, comprehensive encyclopedic companion to twentieth century theatre
- Includes over 2500 entries, more than 130 topic articles by 280 expert international contributors including both leading academics and theatre professionals
- Includes specially commissioned articles by leading theatre professionals talking about their own discipline including Peter Brook on 'Directing', Cicely Berry on 'Voice', Ian McKellen on 'Performing Shakespeare', Ben Kingsley on 'Preparing a Part', Jessica Lange on 'Performing Williams', Hal Prince on 'Directing Musicals', Harriet Walter on 'Women in Theatre'

International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. The twentieth century is the great century of change in the theatre, and the entries capture this modern dynamism and its huge diversity. No other reference work on the subject has the authentic smell of greasepaint in its prose.