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List of contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the Series, Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK)
Introduction to Volume 6: A Popular Theatre for All: Western European Theatre Direction in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Peter M. Boenisch (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Clare Finburgh (Goldsmiths College, UK)
Joan Littlewood
1. Joan Littlewood, Rebel With a Cause: Opening New Directions in British Theatre, Danielle Merahi (theatre director and translator, France)
2. Señora Littlewood’s Rifles: Joan Littlewood and the Leftist Tradition in British Twentieth-Century Theatre, Robert Leach (independent scholar, UK)
Giorgio Strehler
3. Giorgio Strehler: The Epic Stage Director Who Betrayed Brecht, Bent Holm (independent scholar, Denmark)
4. A Theatre of/for Europe: Giorgio Strehler and the Dream of a United Continent, Margherita Laera (University of Kent, UK)
Roger Planchon
5. ‘Theatre’s Beauty is its Death’: Reflections on Working with Roger Planchon, Michel Bataillon (Maison Antoine Vitez, France)
6. Approaching Brecht – Documenting Planchon: Roger Planchon’s Three Stagings of The Good Person of Szechwan, Pia Kleber (University of Toronto, Canada)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Clare Finburgh is an academic in the department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on French, Francophone and UK contemporary performance, notably innovations in French modern and contemporary playwriting anddirecting; and representations of conflict in UK theatre. She has co-written Jean Genet (with David Bradby, 2011), and co-edited Genet: Performance and Politics (2006) and Contemporary French Theatre and Performance (2011).Peter M. Boenisch is Professor of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University, DenmarkSIMON SHEPHERD is Professor of Theatre and Deputy Principal (Academic) at the Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.
