Contemporary European Theatre Directors

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This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past thirty years. This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during the last three decades, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural, and political context. Each chapter discusses a particular director, showing the influences on their work, how it has developed over time, its reception, and the complex relation it has with its social and cultural context. The volume includes directors living and working in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Romania, the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, offering an all-encompassing, global approach across the directing field. Now revised and updated, Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ideal text for both undergraduate and postgraduate directing students, as well as those researching contemporary theatre practices, providing a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe since the end of the Cold War. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of plates Notes on contributors Foreword by Mark Ravenhill Acknowledgements Revised introduction to the first edition Introduction to the second edition 1. Ariane Mnouchkine: Activism, formalism, cosmopolitanism 2. Patrice Chéreau: Staging the European crisis 3. Lev Dodin: The director and cultural memory 4. Silviu Purca rete: Contemporising classics 5. Frank Castorf and the Volksbühne: Berlin’s theatre of deconstruction 6. Daniel Mesguich: ‘Unsummarisable’ mises en scène 7. Declan Donnellan and Cheek by Jowl: ‘To protect the acting’ 8. Piotr Borowski and Poland’s Studium Teatralne: Where process becomes performance 9. Christoph Marthaler: The musicality, theatricality, and politics of postdramatic direction 10. Jan Lauwers: Performance realities – memory, history, death 11. Simon McBurney: Shifting under/soaring over the boundaries of Europe 12. Ivo van Hove: Celebrity and reader 13. Deborah Warner: Experiments of words, bodies, and place 14. Romeo Castellucci: The director on this earth 15. Kristian Frédric: Boxing with the ‘gods’ 16. Krzysztof Warlikowski: Rupturing taboos, curating publics 17. Calixto Bieito: Staging excess in, across, and through Europe 18. Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Teatro/Boucherie Théâtre: From the collective to the director 19. Katie Mitchell: Learning from Europe 20. Thomas Ostermeier: A ‘sociological theatre’ for the age of globalised precarity 21. Peter Sellars: Identity, culture, and the politics of theatre in Europe 22. The director’s new tasks Index