The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 : Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon Paperback / softback
Edited by Dr Clare Finburgh (Goldsmiths University, UK) Delijani, Professor Peter M. (Aarhus University, Denmark) Boenisch
Part of the Great Stage Directors series
Paperback / softback
Description
This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators – Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht – and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politically-engaged ‘directors’ theatre’.
It argues that, in creating their major productions in the prosperous ‘glorious decades’ that followed the devastation of the Second World War, they represent a first expressly ‘European’ generation of theatre directors.
Revisiting works from the classical dramatic canon by drawing on popular theatre traditions, and reaching out to spectators beyond the educated middle-class elite, they put theatre in the service of uniting a traumatized continent.
This study posits that for Littlewood, Strehler and Planchon, theatre has the capacity to create communities.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, 20 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:18/04/2024
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- ISBN:9781350445826
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, 20 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:18/04/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350445826
