Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Director; Introduction; Anecdotes; Director?; The Director and Directing: Aims and Definitions; Brain; Neglect; The Director; International; Time and Money; Actor; Space; Event (Performance); Creative; Person; Process; Catalyst; Neuroaesthetics; Event (Pleasure); Beauty; Mind(s); Position; Chapter 2 The Director and Stanislavski; Introduction; 'System'; Director; Stanislavski; Emotion; Dissemination; Analysis; Different; The Target; The Actor: Body; The 'System'; Chapter 3 The Director and the Actor; Seeing Double

Declan Donnellan (Seeing)Hearing; Thomas Ostermeier and the Actor; Synthesis; Robert Wilson and the Actor; Body; Iconic; Double; Conversation; Chapter 4 'In the Room': The Director and Rehearsal; Introduction; Position(ality); Mirror; Process; Text; Drama(tic); Intention(s); Concept; Space, Place; A Note; Know-That; Performance-Making; Moving; Technical; Rehearsal; Chapter 5 'Making Something from Within': The Director and Devising; Introduction; Time and Space; Making; Director; Company; Unfolding; Adaptation; Wrought; Form and Space; Sound; Vision(ary); Chapter 6 Design and the Director

Perspective(s)Seeing; 'Real' Spaces; Narrative and Representational Scenographies; (Making) Space; Monumental; Kinetic; Figurative; Sound; Total; Echoes of Space; Vernacular; Ideas; Objects and Puppets; Sustain; Taxonomy, Typology, Modality; Chapter 7 Conclusion(s): The Director and Choice; Introduction; Term(s); Creative; Design; Choice; Anecdote (Final); Bibliography; Index