The publisher’s link for the textbook seems to be broken. Until it can be fixed, you can get the book here:
For students who wish a physical copy of the book (and studies say at least half of students don’t want to read a pdf), you can purchase it here for 25$ – that’s 1/6th of the typical new theatre textbook:
https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781616101664
I’m currently working on a new edition — a few errors will be corrected and a couple of chapters will be expanded– so I welcome any feedback from teachers and students who have used the book.
My philosophy concerning this book is simple. I believe textbooks are not a replacement for a good teacher and that textbooks are meant to save time by covering basics so that space can be made for in-depth discussions and/or activities.
Recently, I came across a weird development. Apparently, some knucklehead scanned the physical book into a pdf which is circulating on the internet. It’s full of errors, presumably from the text recognition program that was used. I find this bizarre since I’ve always posted a polished version of the book here. For free! Go figure.
An Open Source Theatre Textbook 