Theatre-Directors

In what ways did amateur practitioners contribute to the development of mid-century theatre in Scotland?

Though there were a high number of theatres in Scotland at that time and the complete lack of a dramatic tradition (like there has been one in England for several centuries), it was nearly impossible for emerging Scottish Playwrights and Companies to establish themselves.. Scotland felt a strong need for an independent, national identity and this should affect the theatre as well. That hopeless situation changed in the formation of the lively Scottish theatre scene one can find today played the activity of amateur theatre, which was established by working-class communities.What nowadays is known as scottish National Theatre did not exist one hundred

Twentieth Century Theatre - A Sourcebook

Setting theory beside practice, these writings bring alive a number of vital and continuing concerns, each of which is given full scope in five sections which explore the Modernist,

Towards a Third Theatre - Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret

Moscow Performances II - The 1996-1997 Season

More than just an overview of the seasons noteworthy trends and events in clear, informed and unapologetically opinionated reports. The book looks at the Moscow Times, in which he focuses his expert critical eye on the directors, writers and actors who held centre stage during the 1996-97 theatre season in

On Directing and Dramaturgy - Burning the House

- from the Introduction On Directing is an inspirational resource. It provides unique insights into a philosophy and practice of directing for the beginning student, the experienced practitioner, and everyone inbetween. . This is a major retrospective of Barbas working methods, his

Robert Lepage

His most celebrated work blends acute personal narratives with bold global themes.As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key phases in Lepages life and career an examination of the issues and questions pertinent to his work a discussion of The Dragons Trilogy as a paradigm of his working methods a variety of practical exercises designed

What is Scenography?

The book includes:case studies and anecdotes from Howards own celebrated careerillustrations of her own recent work, including black and white illustrations throughout and an eight page colour section an updated world view of scenography, with definitions from the worlds leading practitioners, What is Scenography? has become a classic text

Contemporary European Theatre Directors

Revolutionary Theatre

Fired by social and political as well as artistic zeal, a group of theatrical avant-gardists have been largely unacknowledged, the oppressive reign of Stalin condemned many of them to death and their legacy. Their aim was to achieve in the theatre what Lenin and his comrades had achieved in politics:

Performing Brecht

She focuses on key productions by directors including George Devine, Sam Wanamaker, William Gaskill, Howard Davies, John Dexter and Richard Eyre.Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brechts plays in Britain over forty years. The case studies of productions in the 1990s, incorporating her own exclusive access to the rehearsals and in-depth interviews with directors and performers. Margaret Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance,

Ariane Mnouchkine - Routledge Performance Practitioners Series, Book 8

Each volume explains the background to and the creative processanalysis of key productions, including 1789 and Richard II..As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory

The Routledge Companion to Directors Shakespeare

Each entry describes a directors own theatrical vision, and methods of rehearsal and production. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of the last hundred years in a variety of cultural and political contexts.Notable entries include: Ingmar Bergman Peter Hall Fritz Kortner Robert Lepage

British Realist Theatre - The New Wave in its Context 1956--1965

The playwrights discussed include: * Edward Bond * John Osborne * Shelagh Delaney * Harold Pinter. British Realist Theatre is an accessible introduction to the New Wave, providing the historical and cultural background which is essential for a true understanding of this influential and dynamic era.The British New Wave of dramatists, actors and directors

Systems of Rehearsal - Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski, and Brook

The author compares each system ot the work of the three principal paradigms in which virtually all theatre work is conducted today - those developed by Stanislavsky, Brecht and Grotowski. The result is the most comprehensive introduction to modern theatre available..The gap between theory and practice in rehearsal is wide. many actors and directors apply theories without fully understanding them, and most accounts of rehearsal techniques fail to put the methods

Theatre and the World - Performance and the Politics of Culture

And he presents a detailed dramaturgical analysis of what he describes as an intracultural theatre project, providing an alternative vision of the twentieth centurys most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook.In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a Third World perspective. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised and taken out of context by Western directors and critics. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the creation or discussion of a truly non-Eurocentric

Upstaged - Making Theatre in the Media Age

In conversations that range from close-ups to cultural imperialism,microphones to myth-making, sit-coms to Shakespeare and vocal technique to voyeurism, these thoughtful observers illuminate the struggle of making a living versus making art, the modern audiences preference for images over words and for technology over the human body, and the imperative that theatre play to its essential strengths of language, metaphor, immediacy and community. Ever since the introduction of the talkies in the end, is the role of live theatre in our media-saturated culture? Anne Nicholson Weber has sought answers from an extraordinary cast of leading

Collaborative Theatre - Le Theatre du Soleil

Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen

She identifies distinct strategies chosen by film directors to appropriate the plays..How is a Shakespearean play transformed when it is directed for the study of sequences in Shakespearean adaptations and includes examples from all the

Twentieth-Century Actor Training

Actor training is arguably the central phenomenon of twentieth century theatre making. The practitioners included are: * Stella Adler * Bertolt Brecht * Joseph Chaikin * Jacques Copeau * Joan Littlewood * Vsevelod Meyerhold * Konstantin Stanislavsky * Eugenio Barba * Peter Brook * Michael Chekhov * Jerzy Grotowski * Sanford Meisner * Wlodimierz Staniewski * Lee Strasbourg Each chapter provides a unique account of specific training exercises and productions of fourteen directors are analysed in a single volume, each one written by a leading

Fifty Key Theatre Directors

The authors provide clear and insightful overviews of the twentieth and twenty-first century from around the world.Each entry discusses a directors key productions, ideas and rehearsal methods, effectively combining theory and practice.Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre for practitioners, theatregoers and

The Drama of South Africa - Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910

Eminent theatre historian Loren Kruger discusses well-known figures, as well as lesser-known performers and directors who have enriched

Brecht Sourcebook - Worlds of Performance Series, Book 1

Stuart McDowell, Ernst Schmacher, Hans-Joachim Bunge, Martin Esslin, Artuto Lazzari, Tadashi Uchino, Diana Taylor, Elin Diamond, and Lee Baxandall. Together these essays are an ideal companion to Brechts plays, and provide an invaluable reconsideration of Brechts aesthetic theories * the relationship of Epic theatre to orthodox dramatic theatre * Brechts influence on a variety of cultures and contexts including England, Italy , Moscow and Japan. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of the most important articles written about

The Show Makers - Great Directors of the American Musical Theatre

Directors & Designers

White has selected chapters which look at theatre and site-specific performance, the phenomenological, contested readings and mis-readings that can occur, the power of place and space and the manipulation of space by the director and designer, illuminate the creative relationship for the reader. The use of simultaneous playing spaces of the way in which these roles have developed over the last century with specific chapters on both the personalities and on the works created by these

Broadway for Two: 10 Musical Theatre Duets