The Great European Stage Directors
Title | The Great European Stage Directors PDF eBook |
Author | David Barnett |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474254113 |
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6
Title | The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 PDF eBook |
Author | Peta Tait |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474253997 |
This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these 3 directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators – Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht – and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politically-engaged 'directors' theatre'. It argues that, in creating their major productions in the prosperous 'glorious decades' that followed the devastation of the Second World War, they represent a first expressly 'European' generation of theatre directors. Revisiting works from the classical dramatic canon by drawing on popular theatre traditions, and reaching out to spectators beyond the educated middle-class elite, they put theatre in the service of uniting a traumatized continent. This study posits that for Littlewood, Strehler and Planchon, theatre has the capacity to create communities.
The Great European Stage Directors Set 2
Title | The Great European Stage Directors Set 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Shepherd |
Publisher | Methuen Drama |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-04-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1350445991 |
The definitive account of the work, lineage and legacy of the most important European stage directors from the second half of the twentieth century. Through each volume's focus on a small cluster of related directors, it offers a rich and substantial account of the development of artistic practice and the artform as a whole.
The Great European Stage Directors
Title | The Great European Stage Directors PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474254168 |
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2
Title | The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | David Barnett |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-10-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474259898 |
This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exemplify the range of ways that directors address dramatic material, theatrical space and their audiences. Their directorial work marks an unmistakeable interest in developing the political potential of theatre in the early 20th century, although each director offered more to their actors, collaborators and spectators than simply the staging of politics and the political.
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 1
Title | The Great European Stage Directors Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Peta Tait |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474253873 |
This volume assesses the contributions of André Antoine, Konstantin Stanislavski and Michel Saint-Denis, whose work has influenced theatre and training for over a century. These directors pioneered Naturalism and refined Realism as they experimented with theatrical form including non-Realism. Antoine and Stanislavski's theatre direction proved foundational to the creation of the director's role and artistic vision, and their influential ideas progressively developed through the stylized theatre of Saint-Denis to the innovative contemporary theatre direction of Max Stafford-Clark, Declan Donnellan and Katie Mitchell.
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3
Title | The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Pitches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2021-10-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474259901 |
This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors' key productions, including Copeau's staging of Molière's The Tricks of Scapin, Komisarjevsky's signature season of Chekhov plays at the Barnes Theatre and Guthrie's pioneering direction of Shakespeare's plays in North America. This study argues that their work exemplifies the complexity and novelty of the role of theatre directing in the first three-quarters of the 20th century, as Komisarjevsky was in the middle of the genesis of directing in Russia, Copeau launched his directorial career just as the role was gaining definition, and Guthrie was at the vanguard of directing in Britain, at last shaking off the traditions of the actor-manager to formulate the new role of artistic director.