Title: Re: Direction : A Theoretical and Practical Guide Author: Gabrielle Cody, Rebecca Schneider ISBN: 0415213916 / 9780415213912 Format: Soft Cover Pages: 400 Publisher: Routledge Year: 2002 Availability: 45-60 days
Description
Contents
Re: Direction is an extraordinary resource for practitioners and students on directing. It provides a collection of ground-breaking interviews, primary sources and essays on 20th century directing theories and practices around the world.
Helpfully organized into four key areas of the subject, the book explores:
theories of directing
the boundaries of the director's role
the limits of categorization
the history of the theatre and performance art.
Exceptionally useful and thought-provoking introductory essays by editors Schneider and Cody guide you through the wealth of materials included here. Re: Direction is the kind of book anyone interested in theatre history should own, and which will prove an indispensable toolkit for a lifetime of study.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Part I : Directors of Classical Revolt
Chapter 1 : Introduction To Part I Chapter 2 : The Reign of The Theatrical Director : Antoine and Lugne-Poe Chapter 3 : Stanislavsky : Uncensored and Unabridged Chapter 4 : Three Sisters At The MAT Chapter 5 : My Russian Notebook, 1934 Chapter 6 : An Interview With Okhlopkov Chapter 7 : Meyerhold's Production of The Magnanimous Cuckold Chapter 8 : Reality Is Not Enough : An Interview With Alan Schneider Chapter 9 : Brecht as Director Chapter 10 : The Revolutionary Moment Chapter 11 : Paradise Now! : Notes Chapter 12 : From Art in Everyday Life Chapter 13 : Invisible Theatre
Part II : Auteur Theatre
Chapter 14 : Introduction To Part II Chapter 15 : Artaud's Les Cenci Chapter 16 : Tadeusz Kantor's Journey Chapter 17 : Theatre and Therapy : Robert Wilson Chapter 18 : Vessel : The Scenography of Meredith Monk - An Interview Chapter 19 : Foreman's PAin (T) and Vertical Mobility Chapter 20 : Pearls For Pigs : Program Notes Chapter 21 : AIDS and Avant-Garde Classicism : Reza Abdoh's Quotations From A Ruined City Chapter 22 : Woman, Man, Dog, Tree : Two Decades of Intimate and Monumental Bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Chapter 23 : Haiku in The Flesh : Oguri's Theatre of Transmutation
Part III : Theatres of Community and Transculturation
Chapter 24 : Introduction To Part III Chapter 25 : Collective Creation Chapter 26 : An Interview With Grotowski Chapter 27 : Talking With Peter Brook Chapter 28 : Building Up The Muscle : An Interview With Ariane Mnouchkine Chapter 29 : The Other History of Intercultural Performance Chapter 30 : Nomadmedia : on Critical Art Ensemble
Part IV : Montage, Reiteration, Revision
Chapter 31 : Introduction To Part IV Chapter 32 : Eisenstein's Wiseman Chapter 33 : Montage of Attractions Chapter 34 : Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company Chapter 35 : Ridiculous Theatre, Scourge of Human Folly Chapter 36 : Family of The F.P. : Notes on The Theatre of The Ridiculous Chapter 37 : Is There A Text on This Stage? Theatre, Authorship, Interpretation Chapter 38 : Island Hopping : Rehearsing The Wooster Group's Brace Up! Chapter 39 : Hamlet At World's End : Heiner Muller's Production in East Berlin Chapter 40 : Suzan-Lori Parks and Liz Diamond : Doo-A-Diddly-Dit-Dit - An Interview Chapter 41 : Three Sisters At Millennium's End : Richard Schechner's Production At La Mama