The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2 - Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction to the Series, Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK)
Introduction to Volume 2, David Barnett (University of York, UK)

Vsevolod Meyerhold

1. Educating the Director: Meyerhold’s Pedagogy for a Theatre of Conventions, Bryan Brown and Olya Petrakova (University of Exeter, UK)
2. Directing Theatrical Space: Meyerhold’s Reconstruction of the Theatre, Amy Skinner (University of Hull, UK)

Erwin Piscator

3. Erwin Piscator: Staging Politics in the Weimar Republic, Minou Arjomand (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
4. Moving Theatre Back to the Spotlight: Erwin Piscator’s Later Stage Work, Klaus Wannemacher (freelance writer, Germany)

Bertolt Brecht

5. Brecht as Corrector: Directing Away From Conventional Theatre, David Barnett (University of York, UK)
6. Brecht’s Perspectives, Then and Now: Class, Gender and the Social Stakes of Performance, Meg Mumford (UNSW Sydney, Australia)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

David Barnett is Professor of Theatre at the University of York, UK. He has published monographs on Heiner Müller (1998) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2005, paperback 2009), and co-edited a volume and edited a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on contemporary German theatre. His history of
the Berliner Ensemble was published in 2015, and he edited the anthology of Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble Adaptations (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014).
SIMON SHEPHERD is Professor of Theatre and Deputy Principal (Academic) at the Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.

Product details

• Authors: David Barnett, Simon Shepherd
• Assisted by: David Barnett (Editor), Simon Shepherd (Editor of the series), Shepherd Simon (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2021
• EAN: 9781474253949
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-5394-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Great Stage Directors
• Subjects: Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, Theatre Studies, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director