Directors' Theatre

ISBN-13: 9781352007947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 275 str.

Peter M. Boenisch; David Williams; David Bradby

Spis treści

Preface: ‘Enthusiasm and conversation’ (David Williams).- Introduction: ‘Directors’ Theatre - 30 years on’ (Peter M. Boenisch).- Part I: Directors’ Theatre (David Bradby and David Williams).- 1. The Rise of the Director.- 2. Joan Littlewood.- 3. Roger Planchon.- 4. Ariane Mnouchkine.- 5. Jerzy Grotowski.- 6. Peter Brook.- 7. Peter Stein.- 8. Robert Wilson.- Part II: ‘Directors’ Theatre’ – 30 years on: Perspectives and Horizons.- 9. Directors’ theatre in Eastern Europe, 1945 – 2018: A survey of some trajectories (Katalin Trencsényi).- 10. Dis/playing Direction: ‘Genetic Research’ as new approach in directors’ studies (Edith Cassiers, Timmy De Laet, Luk Van den Dries).- 11. Beyond ‘directors’ theatre’: Global(ised) mise en scène in the twenty-first century (Patrice Pavis).- 12. The Heterarchical Director: A model of authorship for the twenty-first century (Duška Radosavljević).

O autorze

David Bradby (1942 – 2011) was Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was the UK’s leading specialist in modern French theatre, and a prolific translator of French playwrights and theatre-makers, including Michel Vinaver, Bernard-Marie Koltès, and Jacques Lecoq.

David Williams was Professor of Performance Practices in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, until his retirement in 2016. He published on the work of Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine, and Theatre de Complicité, and he is also a director, performer, and a long-term dramaturg with British performance duo Lone Twin.

Peter M. Boenisch, originally from Germany, is Professor of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Professor of European Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. His research areas are the fields of theatre directing, dramaturgy, and contemporary dance.