Cutting Plays for Performance

Cutting Plays for Performance brilliantly explores the techniques and approaches that govern how this is done. It’s an original and practical book, one that actors, directors, scholars, and playgoers will find—as I have—an engrossing and invaluable read.
-- James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

In Cutting Plays for Performance, Aili Huber and Toby Malone offer practical and insightful tips suitable for the novice or an experienced practitioner.

Their rich collection of insights and anecdotes from a variety of sources illuminates the travails and joys inherent in shaping text for performance. -- Sarah Enloe, President of the Shakespeare Theater Association

Cutting Plays for Performance is pragmatic, firmly grounded in scholarship and theatre practice, and written with humour and clarity.

This lively guide is a great place to start for anyone working with dramatic texts, whether as actor, director, dramaturg – or reader. -- Russel Jackson, Emeritus professor of Drama at the university of Birmingham and Script advisoron Kenneth Brannaugh's Shakespeare films

With examples from across the dramatic canon and written in an accessible style, Cutting Plays for Performance is an indispensable resource for budding students, practitioners, and critics of theatre. I still can't believe this book hasn't existed until now. -- Brett Greatly-Hirsch, Leeds University

A vitally important and truly groundbreaking contribution to adaptation studies and practice. Every theater company and screenwriter engaged in adapting texts for performance should own a copy of this book.--Dr. James McNamara, University of California at Santa Barbara

Toby Malone and Aili Huber deserve a standing ovation for the time, expertise, and passion they have put into this handbook. I will keep it in a handy spot on my shelf, because I know I will be consulting it time and time again.--Joey Madia, Playwright and performer

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