Parker's sympathetic appraisal reveals a man of adaptable talents; a dabbler in Hollywood and the musical theatre, Nash collaborated with Kurt Weill and S. J. Perelman on the 1943 Broadway hit "One Touch of Venus".
Theatres must collaborate and take their plays on tour to help cover the costs of staging them, he says.
For our next production, however, we are collaborating with theatre director and playwright Matthew Dunster.
So the news that a regional theatre, Bristol Old Vic, will be collaborating with the South African Handspring Puppet Company on a revival of A Midsummer Night's Dream in February is welcome.
So let's begin this week's round-up in Wales, where landscape theatre specialists Wildworks are collaborating with Michael Sheen to create an epic piece of storytelling that takes place at various sites around the town and includes a Last Supper in a working men's club.
Over the years, they grew into their expansive style, providing scores for dance and theatre productions, noodling around with field recordings, and collaborating with the experimental electronic duo Matmos.
American playwrights, collaborating with the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, and other adventurous new companies, were increasingly free to write radical and innovative plays.
Companies such as Sisters Grimm and Nicolazzo's own Little Ones Theatre are seeing their work picked up by major festivals and collaborating with companies including Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company.
The two may well be worthwhile case studies for Cirque (though Paulus is not the only theatre director to collaborate with them).
Curtis is collaborating with the theatre company Punchdrunk, which specialises in staging innovative, site-specific performances that defy description.
