Ivo van Hove : from Shakespeare to David Bowie / edited by Susan Bennett and Sonia Massai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Bennett, Susan, 1955- editor.

Massai, Sonia, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Performance books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hove, Ivo van, 1958---Criticism and interpretation.

Hove, Ivo van.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 237 pages, 16 pages of plates ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Metheun Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Contents:

Ivo van Hove in conversation p. 5

Jan Versweyveld in conversation p. 9

'In rehearsal with Ivo van Hove': Halina Reijn with Ruth Wilson in conversation p. 11

Section 1 Directing the Classics p. 17

Canonical Iconoclasm p. 19 / Sonia Massai

Hedda Meets a Big Gun p. 28 / Mark Lawson

Playing Female Roles in the Classics p. 33 / Halina Reijn and Ruth Wilson

A Human Being is Only a Human Being: Thoughts on Ibsen's Hedda Gabier (Director's Notes) p. 38 / Ivo van Hove

Ivo van Hove Staging Shakespeare: World Enough and Time? p. 42 / Kate Bassett

The Taming of the Shrew (Director's Notes) p. 46 / Ivo van Hove

Staging Ivo van Hove at BAM p. 49 / Joseph V. Melillo

Staging Ivo van Hove at the Barbican p. 52 / Toni Racklin and Sonia Massai

Roman Tragedies: 'The Times they are A-changin' (Bob Dylan) (Director's Notes) p. 56 / Ivo van Hove

Staging Ivo van Hove at the Schaubühne, Berlin p. 60 / Maja Zade and Sonia Massai

Christopher Marlowe's Edward II (Directors Notes) p. 63 / Ivo van Hove

Sign of the Times: Thoughts on Molière's The Misanthrope (Director's Notes) p. 66 / Ivo van Hove

Staging Shakespeare at Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Political Murders and Backroom Politics p. 68 / Laurens De Vos

Two Rival Queens Caught in a Museum: Mary Stuart p. 71 / Laurens De Vos

Ivo van Hove's Antigone: A Contemporary Update p. 74 / George Rodosthenous

The Unanswered Question: How to Get to the Dark Soul of Antigone (Director's Notes) p. 79 / Ivo van Hove

Section 2 The Festival Performances of Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam p. 83

'Everywhere We Travelled We Became the Centre of the Festival': Interviews with Ivo van Hove and Wouter van Ransbeek p. 85 / Keren Zaiontz

Section 3 American Theatre p. 99

Ivo van Hove and the Art of Humanity p. 101 / Joshua E. Polster

The Little Foxes: A Modem Morality Tale about Restriction and Greed p. 106 / Susan C. W. Abbotson

Angels in America: The Bare Dutch Version p. 115 / Emile Schra

A View from Salem: Ivo van Hove's The Crucible p. 122 / Joshua E. Polster

Section 4 Opera across Europe p. 131

Ivo van Hove and Opera: A Critical OverView p. 133 / François Jongen

More than Wall Street in Macbeth p. 141 / Frédéric Maurin

La Clemenza di Tito and the Crisis of Democracy p. 145 / Marcin Bogucki

Cruelly Beautiful: Ivo van Hove's Mazeppa p. 149 / Johanna Wall

Brokeback Mountain: 'Why Can't I Say What I Want to Say?' p. 154 / José Máximo Leza

Fantasy and Reality in Salome p. 158 / Frédéric Maurin

Section 5 Creation, Adaptation, Direction p. 163

Directing Across Genre: Film, Fiction, Music, Theatre p. 165 / Susan Bennett

Synecdoche, Adaptation and the Staged Screenplay: Van Hove's Obsession(s) p. 170 / Julie Sanders

Archaeological Adventures in Spectating: Obsession and Scenes from a Marriage p. 178 / P. A. Skantze

The Intensification of the Novel: Ayn Rand's and Ivo van Hove's The Fountainhead p. 187 / Denis Flannery

Building Blocks: Ivo van Hove and the Barbican Box Project p. 194 / Rachael Nicholas

A Tale of Two Cities: Lazarus in New York and London p. 200 / Susan Bennett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Ivo Van Hove.

ISBN:

9781350031531

1350031534

9781350031548

1350031542

OCLC:

1019833039