| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge introductions to literature |
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Traditional staging and the evolution of the director; Classical Greek theatre: director as choreographer; From Greece to Classical Rome; Medieval European staging; Playwright-managers: Renaissance and early seventeenth-century theatre; The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Enlightenment and the actor-manager; Introducing scenery: Philip Jacques de Loutherbourg; Henry Irving: the nineteenth-century actor-manager; The transition from traditional staging; The German stage and the function of the Intendant |
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The critic as director: Gotthold Lessing at the Hamburg NationaltheaterFurther reading; Chapter 2 The rise of the modern director; The Meiningen Players and the conditions for naturalism; The Meiningen influence; The theory of naturalism: Emile Zola; The naturalistic director: André Antoine and the Théâtre Libre; Symbolist theatre: a call for directorial vision; Richard Wagner: total theatre; Adolphe Appia: lighting and space; Gordon Craig, Adolphe Appia and the theory of directing; Stanislavsky and psychological realism; The Seagull; Acting 'with the body'; Further reading |
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Chapter 3 Directors of theatricalityVsevolod Meyerhold: commedia dell'arte to biomechanics; Theatricality, stylization and the grotesque; The director as engineer: constructivism and biomechanics; Aleksandr Tairov: aestheticized theatricalization; Yevgeny Vakhtangov: 'festivity' and spectacle; Revisiting Meyerhold: Valery Fokin; The politics of theatricality: Ariane Mnouchkine; 'Masters'; Theatricality, metaphor and the 'East'; Directing in a collectivity of equals; Frank Castorf and Thomas Ostermeier: theatricality and violence; Eastern European directors: theatricality as resistance |
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Further readingChapter 4 Epic theatre directors; Erwin Piscator's political theatre; Political staging: Piscator's Rasputin; Film and stage; Political directing: the Piscator approach; The Rasputin production: a model for epic theatre; Documentary theatre; Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre; Epic theatre and cabaret; Developing an epic style of staging and directing; Directing epic theatre: Mother Courage; The influence of epic theatre; Heiner Müller and post-Brechtian epic theatre; Postmodern epic directing: Roberto Ciulli; Further reading; Chapter 5 Total theatre: the director as auteur |
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Gordon Craig and the Artist of the TheatreMax Reinhardt: the 'Director's Book'; Combining directorial methods: Norman Bel Geddes; Peter Brook: collective creation versus directorial vision; Robert Wilson: the 'Visual Book'; Robert Lepage: cinematic self-directing; Total theatre and directing opera: Robert Wilson, Robert Lepage, Peter Sellars; Visual stylization as musical context: Robert Wilson; Cinematic and mechanistic deconstructions of opera: Robert Lepage; Conceptual politics: Peter Sellars; Sound and space: Christoph Marthaler; Further reading; Chapter 6 Directors of ensemble theatre |
| Summary |
"This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors and designers, treatment of dramatic material and approaches to audiences. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher Innes and Maria Shevtsova explore the different rehearsal and staging principles and methods of such earlier groundbreaking figures as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Brecht, revising standard perspectives on their work, as well as analysing a diverse range of innovative contemporary directors, including Ariane Mnouchkine, Lev Dodin, Peter Brook, and Peter Sellars. While tracing the different roots of directorial practices across time, and discussing their artistic, cultural and political significance, the authors provide significant examples of the major directorial approaches and reveal comprehensive patterns in the craft of directing and the influence and collaborative relationships of directors"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- Production and direction.
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Theater -- Production and direction -- History -- 20th century
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Theatrical producers and directors.
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DRAMA -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Direction & Production.
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Theater -- Production and direction
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Theatrical producers and directors
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Theater
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Regie
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shevtsova, Maria, author.
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| LC no. |
2012034004 |
| ISBN |
9781139016391 |
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1139016393 |
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9781107255265 |
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1107255260 |
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9781107347489 |
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1107347483 |
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9781107341234 |
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110734123X |
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1107357101 |
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9781107357105 |
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