The Great European Stage Directors Grotowski Brook Barba

Author : Paul Allain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259934

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 5 by Paul Allain Pdf

This volume provides a fresh assessment of the pioneering practices of theatre directors Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba, whose work has challenged and extended ideas about what theatre is and does. Contributors demonstrate how each was instrumental in rethinking and reinventing theatre's possibilities: where it takes place – whether in theatres or beyond – and who the audience might then be, as well as how actors train and perform, highlighting the importance of the group and collaboration. The volume examines their role in establishing intercultural dialogues and practices, and the wider influence of this work on theatre. Consideration is also given to each director's documentation of their practice in print and film and the influence this has had on 21st-century performance.

Author : Adam J. Ledger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137407672

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The Director and Directing by Adam J. Ledger Pdf

This book critically assesses the artistry of contemporary directors. Its discussion includes the work of Declan Donnellan, Thomas Ostermeier, Deborah Warner, Simon Stone and Krzysztof Warlikowski. Alongside the work of wider theorists (Patrice Pavis and Erika Fischer-Lichte), it uses neuroaesthetic theory (Semir Zeki) and cognitive and creative process models to offer an original means to discuss the performance event, emotion, brain structures and concepts, and the actor’s body in performance. It offers first-hand observation of rehearsals led by Katie Mitchell, Ivo van Hove, Carrie Cracknell and the Steppenwolf Theatre. It also explores devising in relation to the work of Simon McBurney and contemporary groups, and scenography in relation to the work of Dmitry Krymov, Robert Wilson and Robert Lepage. The Director and Directing argues that the director creates a type of knowledge, ‘reward’ and ‘resonant experience’ (G. Gabrielle Starr) through instinctive and expert choices.

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259910

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 4 by Michael Patterson Pdf

In this volume leading scholars assess the contributions of Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner and Harley Granville Barker to European theatre. Their work represents the cultural shift from traditional theatre practices of the 19th century to the rise of Modernism and its means of establishing theatre as an art form in its own right. Uncovering the theories and visions of theatre held by Reinhardt, Jessner and Barker, this volume establishes the contribution and importance of these directors in the development of modern theatre and their significance alongside the better-known names of Stanislavski and Brecht.

Author : Jonathan Pitches
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259903

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3 by Jonathan Pitches Pdf

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.

Author : Luk Van den Dries,Timmy De Laet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259965

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 8 by Luk Van den Dries,Timmy De Laet Pdf

This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre as 3 leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on post-war European theatre. Combining in-depth discussions of the artists' poetics with detailed case studies of several famous and lesser-known key works, the authors featured in this volume trace a range of foundational aesthetic strategies that are central to the directors' work: the dynamics of repetition vis-à-vis fragmentation, the continued significance of language in experimental theatre and dance, the tension between theatricality and the performative reality of the stage, and the equal importance attached to text, image and body. This volume develops a vivid picture of how European stage directors have continued to redefine their own position and role throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

Author : Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259958

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 7 by Felicia Hardison Londré Pdf

This volume offers a compelling account of Jean-Louis Barrault, Ariane Mnouchkine and Peter Stein, who not only won international recognition as directors whose repertoires ranged from classical Greek to Shakespeare to the avant-garde, but also succeeded as leaders of their own companies. The ensembles they nurtured and kept afloat despite setbacks represent the artistic vision of each: the Compagnie Madeleine Renaud–Jean-Louis Barrault, the Théâtre du Soleil and the Schaubühne. Selected landmark productions illuminate the achievements of these 3 directors and their companies.

Author : Clare Finburgh Delijani,Peter M. Boenisch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259941

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 by Clare Finburgh Delijani,Peter M. Boenisch Pdf

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.

Author : David Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259897

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2 by David Barnett Pdf

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.

Author : Peta Tait
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259880

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 1 by Peta Tait Pdf

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.

Author : Peta Tait,David Barnett,Jonathan Pitches,Michael Patterson,Paul Allain,Clare Finburgh-Delijani,Peter M. Boenisch,Felicia Hardison Londreʹ,Luk van den Dries,Timmy De Laet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Theater
ISBN : 147425411X

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The Great European Stage Directors by Peta Tait,David Barnett,Jonathan Pitches,Michael Patterson,Paul Allain,Clare Finburgh-Delijani,Peter M. Boenisch,Felicia Hardison Londreʹ,Luk van den Dries,Timmy De Laet Pdf

Author : Peta Tait,David Barnett,Simon Shepherd,Jonathan Pitches,Michael Patterson,Peter M. Boenisch,Paul Allain,Clare Finburgh,Felicia Hardison Londreʹ,Luk van den Dries,Timmy De Laet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474253994

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 by Peta Tait,David Barnett,Simon Shepherd,Jonathan Pitches,Michael Patterson,Peter M. Boenisch,Paul Allain,Clare Finburgh,Felicia Hardison Londreʹ,Luk van den Dries,Timmy De Laet Pdf

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.

Author : RICHARD SCHECHNER,Lisa Wolford Wylam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136167287

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The Grotowski Sourcebook by RICHARD SCHECHNER,Lisa Wolford Wylam Pdf

This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work. Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features: *essays from the key performance theorists who worked with Grotowski, including Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Jan Kott, Eric Bentley, Harold Clurman, and Charles Marowitz *writings which trace every phase of Grotowski's career from his 'theatre of production' to 'objective drama' and 'art as vehicle' *a wide-ranging collection of Grotowski's own writings, plus an interview with his closest collaborator and 'heir', Thomas Richards *an array of photographs documenting Grotowski and his followers in action *a historical-critical study of Grotowski by Richard Schechner.

Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135225834

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On Directing and Dramaturgy by Eugenio Barba Pdf

"A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of groups, trained for a long time....." - from the Introduction On Directing is Eugenio Barba's unprecedented account of his own life and work. This is a major retrospective of Barba's working methods, his practical techniques, and the life experiences which fed directly into his theatre-making. On Directing is an inspirational resource. It is a dramaturgy of dramaturgies, and a professional autobiography, from one of the most significant and influential directors and theorists working today. It provides unique insights into a philosophy and practice of directing for the beginning student, the experienced practitioner, and everyone in between.

Author : Peter M. Boenisch,David Williams,David Bradby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316485

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Directors’ Theatre by Peter M. Boenisch,David Williams,David Bradby Pdf

This extended new edition of a seminal text marks the 30th anniversary of the original book's major intervention in the discipline. Bradby and Williams' field-defining book introduced the continental-European approach to directing, recognising the work of the modern stage director as an artist in his or her own right for the first time. Now edited by Peter M. Boenisch in collaboration with David Williams, this new edition includes an additional four chapters by leading contemporary experts on theatre direction. Covering recent practices and developments, as well as new trends in the academic research on directing, Directors' Theatre interrogates working ethics and performance aesthetics, directors' work with actors as a central creative source and their responses to the ongoing reassessment of theatre's role and function in contemporary culture. This long-awaited reissue will make a classic, authoritative study on directors and directing accessible to a new generation of students, scholars and artists. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Theatre, Performance Studies and Directing. New to this Edition: - Includes four new chapters written by leading contemporary experts on theatre direction: Patrice Pavis, Katalin Trencsényi, the research team of Luk Van den Dries, and DuškaRadosavljevic - New chapters discuss recent approaches and developments in theatre directing as well as research on directing, including artists such as Luk Perceval, Daniel Jeanneteau, Improbable and Ivo van Hove, while also introducing the development of theatre direction in Eastern Europe - The original text has been carefully revised by David Williams and chapters have been supplemented with new introductions and conclusions

Author : Maria M. Delgado,Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135164669

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Contemporary European Theatre Directors by Maria M. Delgado,Dan Rebellato Pdf

'An invaluable book that we shall all be using for a long time to come' - Michael Billington Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years. It is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during this period, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s. The featured directors are: Calixto Bieito, Piotr Borowski, Romeo Castellucci, Frank Castorf, Patrice Chéreau, Lev Dodin, Declan Donnellan, Kristian Frédric, Rodrigo García, Jan Lauwers, Christoph Marthaler, Simon McBurney, Daniel Mesguich, Katie Mitchell, Ariane Mnouchkine, Thomas Ostermeier, Patrice Pavis, Silviu Purcărete and Peter Sellars. Travelling from London and Craiova to St. Petersburg and Madrid, the book examines directors working with classics, new writing, and new collaborative theatre forms. Each chapter is written by a specialist in European theatre and provides a detail critique of production styles. The directors themselves provide contributions and interviews to this multi-authored work, which unites the many and varied voices of European theatre in one coherent volume.