The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction 11 Kantor (1915–1990) 11.1 Biography and context 11.2 Key performances 12 Halprin (1920–) 12.1 Life and work 12.2 The mountain performances, Circle the Earth and The Planetary Dance 13 Lecoq (1921–1999) 13.1 The life of Jacques Lecoq 13.2 Traces of Jacques Lecoq: Théâtre de Complicité’s Street of Crocodiles and the work of Mummenschanz 14 Boal (1931–2009) 14.1 Biography and context 14.2 Forum Theatre in production 15 Grotowski (1933–1999) 15.1 Biography and context 15.2 Grotowski as director 16 Barba (1936–) 16.1 Building a ‘small tradition’ 16.2 A spectator’s view of Ego Faust 17 Mnouchkine (1939–) 17.1 Intellectual and artistic biography: nomad of the imagination 17.2 Four key productions: Mnouchkine’s “fanatically theatrical” 18 Bausch (1940–2009) 18.1 An artistic and contextual history 18.2 Kontakthof in context 19 Wilson (1941–) 19.1 A working life 19.2 Einstein on the Beach 19.3 Pushkin’s Fairy Tales 20 Abramović (1946–) 20.1 Biography and context 20.2 Key works 21 Lepage (1957–) 21.1 Cultural and artistic biography: Robert Lepage in-between worlds 21.2 Performance text: The Dragons’ Trilogy Index