Robert Leach

The Author: Robert Leach, formerly reader in Drama at Birmingham University, now teaches at the University of Edinburgh. He gained his Ph.D. from Cambridge University for his research on Russian Revolutionary Theatre. He is a freelance theatre director, whose work includes the world premiere of the formerly banned I Want a Babyby Sergei Tretyakov at Moscow's Teatr u Nikitskikh Vorot in 1990. He has written many books, including Revolutionary Theatre, A History of Russian Theatreand The Punchand Judy Show: History, Tradition and Meaning.