Robert Marsden is an experienced theatre director and theatre academic, currently Head of the Media and Performance Department at Staffordshire University, UK. As a director, he has worked across subsidised and commercial sectors since 1999 and has taught directing, acting and theatre making in universities and drama schools since 2001. He has published articles in journals as well as in trade papers from The Stage to Drama and Theatre magazine amongst others, and is the author of Inside the Rehearsal Room (Methuen Drama, 2022).

• PART ONE: Introduction to directing- What is directing?- How this book is set out- The role of the director: what is directing?- The rise of the director- Directing without the director- Creativity, breakthroughs and building blocks- Rehearsal and production analyses PART TWO: Stages of directing- Stage One: Choosing and establishing- Stage Two: Creating and forming- Stage Three: Building and Encouraging- Stage Four: Shaping and layering – the final stages- Stage Five: Delivering and entrusting PART THREE: Interviews with leading theatre directors- Tamara Harvey- Holly Race Roughan- Josie Rourke- Roy Alexander Weise References

Usefully brings together the obvious and the not so obvious to the non-professional.

Robert Marsden is an experienced theatre director and theatre academic, currently Head of the Media and Performance Department at Staffordshire University, UK. As a director, he has worked across subsidised and commercial sectors since 1999 and has taught directing, acting and theatre making in universities and drama schools since 2001. He has published articles in journals as well as in trade papers from The Stage to Drama and Theatre magazine amongst others, and is the author of Inside the Rehearsal Room (Methuen Drama, 2022).

• PART ONE: Introduction to directing- What is directing?- How this book is set out- The role of the director: what is directing?- The rise of the director- Directing without the director- Creativity, breakthroughs and building blocks- Rehearsal and production analyses PART TWO: Stages of directing- Stage One: Choosing and establishing- Stage Two: Creating and forming- Stage Three: Building and Encouraging- Stage Four: Shaping and layering – the final stages- Stage Five: Delivering and entrusting PART THREE: Interviews with leading theatre directors- Tamara Harvey- Holly Race Roughan- Josie Rourke- Roy Alexander Weise References

Usefully brings together the obvious and the not so obvious to the non-professional.

Robert Marsden is an experienced theatre director and theatre academic, currently Head of the Media and Performance Department at Staffordshire University, UK. As a director, he has worked across subsidised and commercial sectors since 1999 and has taught directing, acting and theatre making in universities and drama schools since 2001. He has published articles in journals as well as in trade papers from The Stage to Drama and Theatre magazine amongst others, and is the author of Inside the Rehearsal Room (Methuen Drama, 2022).

• PART ONE: Introduction to directing- What is directing?- How this book is set out- The role of the director: what is directing?- The rise of the director- Directing without the director- Creativity, breakthroughs and building blocks- Rehearsal and production analyses PART TWO: Stages of directing- Stage One: Choosing and establishing- Stage Two: Creating and forming- Stage Three: Building and Encouraging- Stage Four: Shaping and layering – the final stages- Stage Five: Delivering and entrusting PART THREE: Interviews with leading theatre directors- Tamara Harvey- Holly Race Roughan- Josie Rourke- Roy Alexander Weise References

Usefully brings together the obvious and the not so obvious to the non-professional.