Download or read book Direction written by Simon Shepherd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is directing an art? Do directors need to be trained? What do directors actually do? These questions and more are answered in this accessibly written survey of the art of theatre direction. Its broad scope ranges across the theatres of both America and Europe, looking at practices from Stanislavski up to the present day.