Directing the Decades: Lessons from Fifty Years of Becoming a Director - Paperback

by Sue Dunderdale (Author)

Directing the Decades is an examination of the development of theatre in the UK since the revolution of the 1950s until the present day, viewed through the individual progress of a female director from a working-class background.

Author Biography

Sue Dunderdale came from a working-class family and studied Drama and English at Manchester University from 1966 to 1971. She has been a director ever since and, in that time, has founded the touring theatre company Pentabus, been the Artistic Director of the Soho Theatre (1984-88) and Greenwich Theatre (1988-89), a director of many television dramas and films, and the Head of MA in Text and Performance, the MA in Directing, and the MA Theatre Lab at RADA (2004-14). Since leaving RADA she has been a freelance director and writer and has run workshops for directors and actors at the London Film School, Actors Studio, Shanghai University, and Head for Heights Theatre Company.