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The Cambridge introduction to theatre directing /
"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 materi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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