Kevin Ewert is Professor of Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA. He has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare and The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare, and was the Associate Editor for the latter volume. He is a series editor for Palgrave Macmillan's The Shakespeare Handbooks, and wrote the volume on Henry V for that series. From 1997-2003 he was a company member and regular director for the Unseam'd Shakespeare Company in Pittsburgh.

Part memoir, part manifesto, this candid and clever account brilliantly captures the forms, pressures and pleasures of Shakespearean theatre-making in the early twenty-first century. Kevin Ewert is an expert and inspiring guide to postdramatic Shakespeare.

• IntroductionPart I: In Theory1. The Play’s The Thing2. The Thing is the ThingPart II: In Practice3. The Production Machine4. Playing With Time and Space5. Devising Shakespeare6. Fixing Shakespeare7. My Year of ShakespearePart III: Provocation and Debate8. A Conversation with Rude MechsAnnotated Reading List.

Kevin Ewert is Professor of Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA. He has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare and The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare, and was the Associate Editor for the latter volume. He is a series editor for Palgrave Macmillan's The Shakespeare Handbooks, and wrote the volume on Henry V for that series. From 1997-2003 he was a company member and regular director for the Unseam'd Shakespeare Company in Pittsburgh.

Part memoir, part manifesto, this candid and clever account brilliantly captures the forms, pressures and pleasures of Shakespearean theatre-making in the early twenty-first century. Kevin Ewert is an expert and inspiring guide to postdramatic Shakespeare.

• IntroductionPart I: In Theory1. The Play’s The Thing2. The Thing is the ThingPart II: In Practice3. The Production Machine4. Playing With Time and Space5. Devising Shakespeare6. Fixing Shakespeare7. My Year of ShakespearePart III: Provocation and Debate8. A Conversation with Rude MechsAnnotated Reading List.

Kevin Ewert is Professor of Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA. He has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare and The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare, and was the Associate Editor for the latter volume. He is a series editor for Palgrave Macmillan's The Shakespeare Handbooks, and wrote the volume on Henry V for that series. From 1997-2003 he was a company member and regular director for the Unseam'd Shakespeare Company in Pittsburgh.

Part memoir, part manifesto, this candid and clever account brilliantly captures the forms, pressures and pleasures of Shakespearean theatre-making in the early twenty-first century. Kevin Ewert is an expert and inspiring guide to postdramatic Shakespeare.

• IntroductionPart I: In Theory1. The Play’s The Thing2. The Thing is the ThingPart II: In Practice3. The Production Machine4. Playing With Time and Space5. Devising Shakespeare6. Fixing Shakespeare7. My Year of ShakespearePart III: Provocation and Debate8. A Conversation with Rude MechsAnnotated Reading List.