Notes on Directing
130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair (Performance Books)
by Frank Hauser
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Five years ago, Frank Hauser, then a retired freelance director, and writer Russell Reich, his former student, selfpublished Notes on Directing in hardcover. It was immediately acclaimed as "a gemwitty and full of insight;" "so sensible, so complete, and so right;" and "amazingly illuminating" by the likes of Judi Dench, Edward Albee, and Terry T...
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