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Rehearsal Studies - Inside the Rehearsal Room: Process, Collaboration and Decision-making. By Robert Marsden. Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, 2022; 234 pp. $90.00 cloth, $22.00 paper, e-book available. - Rehearsal Practices of Indigenous Women Theatre Makers: Australia, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island. By Liza-Mare Syron. Springer/Palgrave Macmillan, 2021; 129 pp.; illustrations. $64.99 cloth, e-book available. - Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy. By Chelsea Pace, with contributions from Laura Rikard. Routledge, 2020; 138 pp.; illustrations. $136.00 cloth, $35.96 paper, e-book available. - Supporting Staged Intimacy: A Practical Guide for Theatre Creatives, Managers, and Crew. By Alexis Black and Tina M. Newhauser. Routledge, 2023; 278 pp.; illustrations. $160.00 cloth, $31.96 paper, e-book available. - Performing Shakespeare’s Women: Playing Dead. By Paige Martin Reynolds. Bloomsbury/The Arden Shakespeare, 2019; 208 pp. $120.00 cloth, $42.95 paper, e-book available. - Performing Restoration Shakespeare. Edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Claude Fretz, and Richard Schoch. Cambridge University Press, 2023; 292 pp.; illustrations. $93.20 cloth, e-book available. - What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century. By James Harriman-Smith. Bloomsbury, 2024; 256 pp.; illustrations. $90.00 cloth, $31.45 paper, e-book available.

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Inside the Rehearsal Room: Process, Collaboration and Decision-making. By Robert Marsden. Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, 2022; 234 pp. $90.00 cloth, $22.00 paper, e-book available.
Rehearsal Practices of Indigenous Women Theatre Makers: Australia, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island. By Liza-Mare Syron. Springer/Palgrave Macmillan, 2021; 129 pp.; illustrations. $64.99 cloth, e-book available.
Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy. By Chelsea Pace, with contributions from Laura Rikard. Routledge, 2020; 138 pp.; illustrations. $136.00 cloth, $35.96 paper, e-book available.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2024

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Abstract

Exploring diverse strategies of process-focused research from historical reconstructions of period practices to staged intimacy coaching, seven new titles offer a representative but not exhaustive overview of the expanding field of rehearsal studies.

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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2024 , pp. 169 - 176
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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