Introduction
Chapter 1
Direct Less - Learning to let go.
With particular reference to Shakespeare. From Measure for Measure at the RSC to Twelfth Night with Filter.
Chapter 2
Start Well - The crucial establishing of tone.
Focusing on Sebastian Nuebling's opening images and words influence on A Streetcar Named Desire, Herons (both at the Lyric ) and The Plough and the Stars ( Abbey Theatre Dublin)
Chapter 3
Why, Not How - the power of the dramatic gesture
Focusing on how Three Kingdoms influenced Secret Theatre and beyond
Chapter 4
The Other Brain In The Room - the place of Dramaturgy
Secret Theatre, with special focus on A Series Of Increasingly Impossible Acts, Bugsy Malone and Herons
Chapter 5
Not The Usual Suspects - Casting the unexpected.
Richard lll at the RSC through Filter's A Midsummers Night Dream to Secret Theatre and the politics of a permanent company of actors
Chapter 6
The Spirt Versus The Letter - Moving away from literalism
From Arthur Miller (The Man Who Had All The Luck - Donmar and The Price - Tricycle/West End) and David Storey (In Celebration - Chichester and The Contractor - Oxford Stage Company ) through to Three Sisters, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Shopping and Fucking (Lyric)
Chapter 7
The Secret Theatre Experience - Failing gloriously
(Lyric Hammersmith 2013-2015)
Chapter 8
The Plough and the Stars - Reinventing expectations.
(Abbey Theatre Dublin 2016)
Chapter 9
Fusion, Synthesis and Collision - the influence of European theatre culture on the British tradition
Focusing on Three Kingdoms (Lyric)
