Ivan R. Dee
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978-1-56663-799-2 • Paperback • December 2008 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
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Terry McCabe has directed plays professionally in the Chicago area for more than twenty years, winning two Jefferson citations and a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival. He studied theatre at Indiana and Northwestern universities and now teaches directing and other theatre classes at Columbia College in Chicago. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Eminently sensible, delivered with cogent examples and equally cogent arguments. It is a heartfelt cry that needs to be heard.
— Nicholas Rudall
One of the paradoxes of the theatre is that the artistry of its greatest directors is largely invisible...Terry McCabe raises the curtain on why this must be so.
— Gregory Mosher
I would be delighted if every director I work with read and gave serious consideration to the ideas in this book.
— Jeffrey Sweet
A resounding call to revisit the fundamental purpose of the stage director