Contemporary European theatre directors
Subtitle: a companion
By: edited by Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato.
Contributors: Delgado, Maria M.; Rebellato, Dan, 1968-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415462501; 9780415462518; 9780203859520
Subjects: Theater -- Production and direction -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ariane Mnouchkine: activism, formalism, cosmopolitanism / Brian Singleton; title: Patrice Chéreau: staging the European crisis / David Fancy; title: Lev Dodin: the director and cultural memory / Peter Lichtenfels; title: Silviu Purcarete: contemporising classics / Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic; title: Frank Castorf and the Volksbühne: Berlin's theatre of deconstruction / Marvin Carlson; title: Daniel Mesguich: "unsummarisable" mises en scene / Jim Carmody; title: Declan Donnellan and Cheek by Jowl: "to protect the acting" / Aleks Sierz; title: Piotr Borowski and Poland's Studium Teatralne, Poland: where process becomes performance / Paul Allain; title: Christoph Marthaler: the musicality, theatricality and politics of postdramatic direction / David Barnett; title: Jan Lauwers: performance realities, memory, history, death / Janelle Reinelt; title: Simon McBurney: shifting under/soaring over the boundaries of Europe / Steve Knapper; title: Romeo Castellucci: the director on this earth / Alan Read; title: Kristian Frédric: boxing with the "gods" / Judith G. Miller; title: Calixto Bieito: staging excess in, across and through Europe / Maria M. Delgado; title: Rodrigo García and La Carniceria Teatro: from the collective to the director / Lourdes Orozco; title: Katie Mitchell: learning from Europe / Dan Rebellato; title: Thomas Ostermeier: mission neo(n)realism and a theatre of actors and authors / Peter Boenisch; title: Postscripts; title: Thomas Ostermeier: on Europe, theatre, communication and exchange / James Woodall; title: Peter Sellars: identity, culture and the politics of theatre in Europe / Maria M. Delgado; title: The director's new tasks / Patrice Pavis.