Contemporary European Theatre Directors PDF
Preview Contemporary European Theatre Directors
CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN THEATRE DIRECTORS This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past 30 years. This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work under- taken in European theatre during the last three decades, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural, and political context. Each chapter discusses a particular director, showing the influences on their work, how it has developed over time, its reception, and the complex rela- tion it has with its social and cultural context. The volume includes directors living and working in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Romania, the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, offering a broad and international picture of the directing landscape. Now revised and updated, Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ideal text for both undergraduate and postgraduate directing students, as well as those researching contemporary theatre practices, providing a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe following the end of the Cold War. Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Director of Research at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She has published widely in the area of Spanish-language theatre and film. Her books include ‘Other’ Spanish Theatres (2003, revised Spanish-language edition, 2017), Federico García Lorca (2008), and ten co-edited volumes. Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published widely on post- war British theatre and his books include 1956 and All That (1999) and Theatre and Globalization (2009). He is also a playwright whose works have been performed on stage and radio in the UK, Europe, and the USA. C O N T E M P O R A R Y E U R O P E A N T H E A T R E D I R E C T O R S Second Edition Edited by Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato Second edition published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. First edition published by Routledge in 2010 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Delgado, Maria M., editor. | Rebellato, Dan, 1968- editor. Title: Contemporary European theatre directors / edited by Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019045384 (print) | LCCN 2019045385 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367023140 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367023164 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429400285 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Theater–Production and direction–Europe–History–20th century. | Theater–Production and direction–Europe–History–21st century. Classification: LCC PN2570 .C663 2020 (print) | LCC PN2570 (ebook) | DDC 792.02/330922–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019045384 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019045385 ISBN: 978-0-367-02314-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-02316-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-40028-5 (ebk) Typeset in Amasis and Scene by Swales & Willis, Exeter, Devon, UK For David Bradby (1942–2011) – a brilliant scholar, inspiring teacher, and great friend, without whose lifelong work on directors’ theatre and the European stage this volume would not have been possible and to whom this volume is dedicated with love and respect C O N T E N T S S T N E T N O C x List of plates xii Notes on contributors xviii Foreword by Mark Ravenhill xxi Acknowledgements 1 Revised introduction to the first edition Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato 29 Introduction to the second edition Dan Rebellato and Maria M. Delgado 39 1 Ariane Mnouchkine: Activism, formalism, cosmopolitanism Brian Singleton 61 2 Patrice Chéreau: Staging the European crisis David Fancy 85 3 Lev Dodin: The director and cultural memory Peter Lichtenfels 103 4 Silviu Purca˘rete: Contemporising classics Aleksandar Saša Dundjerovic´ 121 5 Frank Castorf and the Volksbühne: Berlin’s theatre of deconstruction Marvin Carlson S 143 6 Daniel Mesguich: ‘Unsummarisable’ mises en scène T Jim Carmody (with additional material by Dominic Glynn) N E T 165 7 Declan Donnellan and Cheek by Jowl: ‘To protect the acting’ N O Aleks Sierz C 185 8 Piotr Borowski and Poland’s Studium Teatralne: Where process becomes performance Paul Allain 207 9 Christoph Marthaler: The musicality, theatricality, and politics of postdramatic direction David Barnett 229 10 Jan Lauwers: Performance realities – memory, history, death Janelle Reinelt 259 11 Simon McBurney: Shifting under/soaring over the boundaries of Europe Stephen Knapper (with additional material by Dan Rebellato) 275 12 Ivo van Hove: Celebrity and reader Denis Flannery 299 13 Deborah Warner: Experiments of words, bodies, and place Adam J. Ledger 325 14 Romeo Castellucci: The director on this earth Alan Read 341 15 Kristian Frédric: Boxing with the ‘gods’ Judith G. Miller 355 16 Krzysztof Warlikowski: Rupturing taboos, curating publics Bryce Lease viii 383 17 Calixto Bieito: Staging excess in, across, and through Europe S T Maria M. Delgado N E 407 18 Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Teatro/Boucherie Théâtre: T N From the collective to the director O C Lourdes Orozco 427 19 Katie Mitchell: Learning from Europe Dan Rebellato 453 20 Thomas Ostermeier: A ‘sociological theatre’ for the age of globalised precarity Peter M. Boenisch 475 21 Peter Sellars: Identity, culture, and the politics of theatre in Europe Maria M. Delgado 493 22 The director’s new tasks Patrice Pavis Translated by Joel Anderson 511 Index ix
The list of books you might like
