Simon Shepherd is Deputy Principal and Professor of Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

• Foreword; 1. Where it happens: National theatre; Buildings and their people; Against the theatre institution; Shows without theatres; 2. Who does it: The organisation of actors and companies; What actors do; Directors; Writers; 3. What they make: The readable tradition; Poetic drama; Realisms; Deferring to the real: theatre as document; Cruelties; Other than words; 4. Why they do it: Movements and manifestos; Making good theatre; Afterword.

Simon Shepherd is Deputy Principal and Professor of Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

• Foreword; 1. Where it happens: National theatre; Buildings and their people; Against the theatre institution; Shows without theatres; 2. Who does it: The organisation of actors and companies; What actors do; Directors; Writers; 3. What they make: The readable tradition; Poetic drama; Realisms; Deferring to the real: theatre as document; Cruelties; Other than words; 4. Why they do it: Movements and manifestos; Making good theatre; Afterword.

Simon Shepherd is Deputy Principal and Professor of Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

• Foreword; 1. Where it happens: National theatre; Buildings and their people; Against the theatre institution; Shows without theatres; 2. Who does it: The organisation of actors and companies; What actors do; Directors; Writers; 3. What they make: The readable tradition; Poetic drama; Realisms; Deferring to the real: theatre as document; Cruelties; Other than words; 4. Why they do it: Movements and manifestos; Making good theatre; Afterword.