Authoring performance
Subtitle: the director in contemporary theatre
By: Avra Sidiropoulou
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: What is theatre?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780230120181
Subjects: Production and direction; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production; Theater; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; DRAMA / General
Description: "Provides a comparative approach to the internationally wide-spread phenomenon of the contemporary director-auteur in the theatre, urging a historical and theoretical exploration of the visions, methods, and stage idioms in the work of established artists. Sidiropoulou examines prominent examples of both older and more recent director-auteur work, aiming at re-asserting - to its artistic and academic audience - the value of balancing the established emphasis on the diegetic aspects of theatre with the ever-spreading varieties of dramatic de-"centering" and "dis-semination." This exciting work also poses questions of authorship, which necessarily imply the redefinition of the relationship between "playwright" and the director-playwright"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.