Shakespeare and Directing in Practice

ISBN-13: 9781137369284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 158 str.

Kevin Ewert

Opis

When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing - or might something else sometimes be the thing? How can directing produce fresh contexts for Shakespeare's work?

Spis treści

Introduction.- Part I: In Theory.- 1. The Play’s The Thing.- 2. The Thing is the Thing.- Part II: In Practice.- 3. The Production Machine.- 4. Playing With Time and Space.- 5. Devising Shakespeare.- 6. Fixing Shakespeare.- 7. My Year of Shakespeare.- Part III: Provocation and Debate.- 8. A Conversation with Rude Mechs.- Annotated Reading List.

 

O autorze

Kevin Ewert is Professor of Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA. He has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare and The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare, and was the Associate Editor for the latter volume. He is a series editor for Palgrave Macmillan's The Shakespeare Handbooks, and wrote the volume on Henry V for that series. From 1997-2003 he was a company member and regular director for the Unseam'd Shakespeare Company in Pittsburgh.

Blurb

With a focus on directing rather than directors, Kevin Ewert offers a lively insight into the creative potential of staging Shakespeare’s plays. Beginning with performance lessons teased from long-form improv comedy and ending with a raucous discussion amongst the Co-Producing Artistic Directors of Austin Texas’ Rude Mechs Theatre Company, Ewert illuminates the variety and versatility of Shakespeare in performance and offers a thorough overview of approaches to directing Shakespeare today.