Publications

Key Words. A Journal of Cultural Materialism, no. 7 (contributor, 2009)
Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (eds. A Forsyth and C Megson, contributor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance - Paul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and Charlie Chaplin (author, London, Nick Hern Books, 2006)
Cambridge History of British Theatre, vol III (ed. B Kershaw, contributor, CUP, 2004)
Extraordinary Actors (co-contributor, University of Exeter Press, 2004)
Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company: Creativity and the Institution (author, London, Routledge, 2004)
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (editor of and contributor to; London, Continuum, 2002)
Talking Shakespeare (eds. D Cartmell & M Scott, contributor; Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001)
Theatre in a Cool Climate (co-editor of and contributor to; Oxford, Amber Lane, 1999)
Peggy: the Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent (author; London, Nick Hern Books 1997; winner, inaugural Theatre Book Prize, 1998, Society of Theatre Research)
Making Plays: The Writer-Director Relationship in the Theatre Today by Richard Nelson and David Jones (editor; London, Faber and Faber, 1995)
The Story of Unity Theatre (author; London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1989)
Playwrights' Progress: Patterns of Postwar British Drama (co-author; Oxford, Amber Lane, 1987)
Other Spaces: New Theatre and the RSC (author; London, Methuen, 1980)
Theatre London (editor; London, Theatre Quarterly, 1980)

Essay on 'Simon McBurney', in Dan Rebellato and Maria Delgado (eds), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Directors, London, Routledge, 2010
'Moliere and Scaramouche' (eds. D Bradby and A. Calder), contributor to Cambridge Companion to Moliere, CUP, 2006
'Complicite's Measure for Measure', contributor to Marvin Carlson (ed.), Western European Stages, 2005
'Fellini and the Commedia dell Arte', National; Film Theatre, 2004
'Complicite's Comintern: Internationalism and The Noise of Time', Contemporary Theatre Review, vol. 14, 1, February 2004
'The Shifting Political Significance of Scaramouche in Mazain's France', Societe Internationale d'Histoire Comparee di Theatre, de l'Opera et du Ballet, 2003 'Sabatini's Scaramouche:The Mask and Revolution', in John Sanderson & J.A Rios Carratela (eds.), relaciones entre La Cine y la Literatura:lo Hispano en el Cine NorteAmericano/personajes literarios en la Pantalla, University of Alicante Press, 2002
'The Theatre of Memory: Theatre de Complicite's Mnemonic', no. 17, Theatre Forum, 2000; 'The Servant of Two Masters': Scaramuccia, Hamlet and Don Juan', in C. Cairns (ed.), The Reinassance Theatre: Text, Performance, Design, Ashgate, 1999

Gershwin (Life and Times), Haus Publishing (2004)
Applause: New York's Guide to the Performing Arts (1996)
With Sheridan Morley, Gene Kelly: A Celebration (1996), Marilyn Monroe (1997), Hey, Mr Producer: the Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (1998), Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow (1999), A Century of Theatre (2000)

Devising in Process, co-editor with Jackie Smart, and contributor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
'The Right Kit, Performance/Technologies: A User's Guide', Total Theatre & King Alfred's College, Winchester, 2003
'Travels - Forced Entertainment' in forthcoming book on devising edited by Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender for Manchester University Press

'Scottish Arts Council Wields the Axe', Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.18 (3), 2008
'From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs': The New National Theatre of Scotland, Contemporary Theatre Review, vol. 17, 2, May 2007

'The Technology of the Real: Wayne McGregor's 'Nemesis' and the ecology of perception' in G Carver & C Beardon (eds.), New Visions in Performance: the Impact of Digital Technologies, The Netherlands, Swets & Zeitlinger, 2004
'Meditations on Space: Talking to Optik' in Body, Space, Technology, vol. 4, 2004
'Assessing in Triplicate' in C Rust (ed.), Improving Student Learning, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning, 2003
'The Discourse of Assessment: language and value in the assessment of group practice in the performing arts' in Journal of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 1(2) October 2002, Sage Publications
'Frames of reference: the disruptive dialogue of dance for the camera' in
Journal of Media Practice, 2(1), Intellect, 2002
On Narrative': an interview with Tim Etchells in Frakcija Performing Arts Magazine, Zagreb, Centre for Drama Art and Academy of Drama, 2002
'Writing Experience: phenomenology, poststructuralism and physical
Theatre' in Frakcija Performing Arts Magazine, no. 20/21 Autumn 2001, Zagreb, Centre for Drama Art and Academy of Drama
'Physical Linguistics: an exploration of language structures in physical theatre performance' in Dance Theatre: an international investigation, Proceedings of the 1st MoMentUm conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1999

So You Want to Be a Theatre Director?, London, Nick Hern Books, 2004
Faber Pocket Guides (co-author) to Shakespeare, Twentieth Century Drama, and Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg

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