Re: Direction : A Theoretical and Practical Guide

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

Index