Andre Antoine

Klappentext This book investigates Antoine's exploration of the possibilities and limitations of stage realism. Zusammenfassung This book investigates Antoine's exploration of the possibilities and limitations of stage realism, his concept of a workshop theatre for new writing and acting, his experiments and achievements in the mise en scene at the Théâtre Libre and Théâtre Antoine, in the classics at the Odéon and in the early silent film. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Who would give the signal?; 2. The fourth wall: Antoine and the new acting; 3. Extending the repertoire; 4. Some experiments with the mise en scène; 5. Playwrights' theatre; 6. Director's theatre: 'a hundred plays a year'; 7. Staging the classics; 8. A national theatre; 9. Antoine and the cinema; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Chothia, Chothia Jean
• Assisted by: Christopher Innes (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521272285
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27228-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Directors in Perspective; Directors in Perspective
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Educational: English language & literacy, Film history, theory or criticism, Educational: First / native language