TOO Episode 168 - The Book Club 02 | Backwards & Forwards by David Ball

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In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss their second choice for The Theatre of Others Book Club, Backwards and Forwards by David Ball.

David Ball, an award-winning playwright, director, novelist, and drama theoretician, wrote Backwards and Forwards, the standard script analysis textbook for the past quarter century. He was a dramaturg and playwright at Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater in the 1970s; Professor of acting, directing, playwriting, and dramaturgy at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980s; Artistic Director of Pittsburgh’s Metro Theater; and Director of Duke Drama through 1991. His plays and adaptations have been staged at major regional theatres and Off-Broadway, including The Miser and Tartuffe for Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune. His Swamp Outlaw, a Civil War-era novel of Lumbee Indian Henry Berry Lowery and his outlaw raiders, is a Kindle favorite. He has had the privilege of working with director Dominique Serrand for 25 years. In a baffling (even to himself) career change, for 15 years David has been America’s most influential jury consultant. 

Mentioned in this episode:

Sham El-Nessim
Andrew Borba
COP28
Declan Donnellan
Brian Kulick
Noor Effendy Ibrahim
Michael Chekhov's To the Actor

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