Re:direction : a theoretical and practical guide / edited by Rebecca Schneider and Gabrielle Cody.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, Rebecca.

Cody, Gabrielle H., 1956-

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Worlds of performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Production and direction.

Theater.

Physical Description:

x, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Redirection

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

"Re:Direction, a sourcebook on the role of the theatre director, is a resource for practitioners and students of directing. It provides a collection of interviews, primary sources and essays on 20th century directing theories and practices around the world."--Jacket.

Contents:

General introduction / Rebecca Schneider and Gabrielle Cody

Introduction to part 1 / Rebecca Schneider

The reign of the theatrical director: Antoine and Lugne-Poe / Bettina L. Knapp

Stanislavsky: uncensored and unabridged / Sharon Marie Carnicke

Three sisters at the MAT / M.N. Stroyeva

My Russian notebook, 1934 / Lee Strasberg

An interview with Okhlopkov / Lee Strasberg and Sidney Kingsley

Meyerhold's production of the Magnanimous Cuckold / Nick Worrall

Reality is not enough: an interview with Alan Schneider / Richard Schechner

Brecht as director / Carl Weber

The revolutionary moment / Lee Baxandall

Paradise Now!: notes / The living theatre

From art in everyday life / Linda Montano

Invisible theatre / Augusto Boal

Introduction to part 2 / Gabrielle Cody

Artaud's Les Cenci / An account by Roger Blin, Artaud's letters and critical reviews

Tadeusz Kantor's journey / Jan Klossowicz

Theatre and therapy: Robert Wilson / Bill Simmer

Vessel : the scenography of Meredith Monk-an interview / Brooks McNamara

Foreman's PAIN (T) and vertical mobility / Kate Davy.

Pearls for pigs: program notes / Richard Foreman

AIDS and avant-garde classicism : Reza Abdoh's Quotations from a ruined city / John Bell

Woman, man, dog, tree: two decades of intimate and monumental bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater / Gabrielle Cody

Haiku in the flesh: Oguri's theatre of transmutation / Meiling Cheng

Introduction to part 3 / Gabrielle Cody

Collective creation / Theodore Shank

An interview with Grotowski / Richard Schechner [and others]

Talking with Peter Brook / Richard Schechner, [et al.]

Building up the muscle: an interview with Ariane Mnouchkine / Josette Feral

The other history of intercultural performance / Coco Fusco

Nomadmedia : on critical art ensemble / Rebecca Schneider

Introduction to part 4 / Rebecca Schneider

Eisenstein's Wiseman / Daniel Gerould

Montage of attractions / Sergei Eisenstein

Charles Ludlam's ridiculous theatrical company / Ron Argelander

Ridiculous theatre, scourge of human folly / Charles Ludlam

Family of the f.p. : notes on the Theatre of the Ridiculous / Stefan Brecht

Is there a text on this stage? Theatre, authorship, interpretation / Gerald Rabkin

Island hopping : rehearsing the Wooster Group's Brace up! / Euridice Arratia

Hamlet at world's end: Heiner Muller's production in East Berlin / Maik Hamburger

Suzan-Lori Parks and Liz Diamond: doo-a-diddly-dit-dit

an interview / Steven Drukman

Three sisters at millennium's end: Richard Schechner's production at La Mama / Rebecca Schneider.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0415213916

0415213908

9780415213905

9780415213912

OCLC:

46634172

Publisher Number:

99963016175