Contemporary European Theatre Directors

ISBN-13: 9780367023164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 530 str.

Maria M. Delgado; Dan Rebellato

Opis

This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past thirty years.

Spis treści

List of plates  Notes on contributors  Foreword by Mark Ravenhill Acknowledgements  Revised introduction to first edition Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato  Introduction to the second edition Dan Rebellato and Maria M. Delgado  1. Ariane Mnouchkine: Activism, formalism, cosmopolitanism Brian Singleton  2. Patrice Chéreau: Staging the European crisis David Fancy  3. Lev Dodin: The director and cultural memory Peter Lichtenfels  4. Silviu Purcărete: Contemporising classics Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović  5. Frank Castorf and the Volksbühne: Berlin’s theatre of deconstruction Marvin Carlson  6. Daniel Mesguich: ‘Unsummarisable’ mises en scène Jim Carmody (with additional material by Dominic Glynn)  7. Declan Donnellan and Cheek by Jowl: ‘To protect the acting’ Aleks Sierz  8. Piotr Borowski and Poland’s Studium Teatralne: Where process becomes performance Paul Allain  9. Christoph Marthaler: The musicality, theatricality, and politics of postdramatic direction David Barnett  10. Jan Lauwers: Performance realities – memory, history, death Janelle Reinelt  11. Simon McBurney: Shifting under/soaring over the boundaries of Europe Stephen Knapper (with additional material by Dan Rebellato)  12. Ivo van Hove: Celebrity and reader Dennis Flannery  13. Deborah Warner: Experiments of words, bodies, and place Adam J. Ledger  14. Romeo Castellucci: The director on this earth Alan Read  15. Kristian Frédric: Boxing with the ‘gods’ Judith G. Miller  16. Krzysztof Warlikowski: Rupturing taboos, curating publics Bryce Lease  17. Calixto Bieito: Staging excess in, across, and through Europe Maria M. Delgado  18. Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Teatro/Boucherie Théâtre: From the collective to the director Lourdes Orozco  19. Katie Mitchell: Learning from Europe Dan Rebellato  20. Thomas Ostermeier: A ‘sociological theatre’ for the age of globalised precarity Peter M. Boenisch  Postscripts  21. Peter Sellars: Identity, culture, and the politics of theatre in Europe Maria M. Delgado  22. The director’s new tasks Patrice Pavis Translated by Joel Anderson  Index