What to Read After Backwards and Forwards
Readers who loved Backwards and Forwards by David Ball keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Backwards and Forwards is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Backwards and Forwards
How I Learned to Drive
A Sense of Direction
Respect for Acting
A Director Prepares
A Practical handbook for the actor
The Dramatic Imagination
Towards a Poor Theatre
Thinking Like a Director
Copenhagen (Methuen Drama (Series)
Broadway
Acting
On Directing
Actor and the Target
Notes on Directing
To the Actor
History of the Theatre
Meteorology Today
Theatre of the Oppressed
The Actor Speaks
Audition
The goat, or, Who is Sylvia?
The Flick
Sanford Meisner on acting
True West