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What is Theatre?
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What is Theatre?

by John Brown
February 2013
Beginner
246 pages
9h 17m
English
Routledge
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II Theatre Making

Theatre is an art that depends on collaboration between many specialists who are all very different from each other. It is also an extremely practical art, in that all the time, as soon as work is taken in hand, a multitude of very particular and stubborn problems have to be solved. No book that seeks to introduce its readers to theatre should try to hide the complexity that derives from these facts, because it is one of theatre's distinguishing characteristics and can be one of its most fascinating.

The second part of this book brings together many theatre people, each writing from a different perspective and with their own specialized knowledge. Few concessions have been made to uniformity or simplification because making ...

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