Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook

ISBN-13: 9781138174566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 258 str.

James Roose-Evans

Opis

It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John Lahr

Recenzje

`It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John Lahr

`Students and theatre buffs discontented with theatre as mere entertainment will find stimulation and excitement ... The author is not only knowledgeable but extraordinarily perceptive in his wide-ranging survey of the most challenging theatrical movements of our century.' - Publishers' Weekly

`This is one of the most succinct and readable works on avant-garde movements in theatre I have ever seen. Each director and movement is regarded in the light of the author's critical standards, the standards of a practical man of the theatre and a thinker as well.' - Library Journal

`The book is committed and erudite, cross-referring to the other arts, which, at least until drama broke away from the straightjacket of literature, usually preceded the theatre in avant-garde developments.' - Sunday Times

`It is clear, all-embracing and ... often enriching and stimulating.' - The Tablet

`A book which will repay constant re-reading by anyone seriously concerned with the art and practice of the theatre whether as student or practitioner.' - Amateur Stage

`No one interested in the development of the modern stage should miss this excellent book by the founder of the Hampstead Theatre.' - Rene Elvin, The Stage

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Stanislavsky's Life in Art; Chapter 3 The School of Realism; Chapter 4 Meyerhold and the Russian Avant-garde; Chapter 5 Taïrov and the Synthetic Theatre; Chapter 6 Vakhtangov's Achievement; Chapter 7 Craig and Appia – Visionaries; Chapter 8 Copeau – Father of the Modern Theatre; Chapter 9 Reinhardt, Piscator and Brecht; Chapter 10 The Theatre of Ecstasy – Artaud, Okhlopkov, Savary; Chapter 11 The Contribution of the Modern Dance – Martha Graham and Alwin Nikolais; Chapter 12 Further Experiments Today – in America; Chapter 13 Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson and the Bread and Puppet Theatre; Chapter 14 Anna Halprin and the Dancers' Workshop; Chapter 15 Grotowski and the Poor Theatre; Chapter 16 Grotowski and the Journey to the East; Chapter 17 Eugenio Barba and the Third Theatre; Chapter 18 The Mountain with Many Caves: Peter Brook, Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart; Chapter 19 Towards AD 2,000;

O autorze

Authored by Roose-Evans, James