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

This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exemplify the range of ways that directors address dramatic material, theatrical space and their audiences. Their directorial work marks an unmistakeable interest in developing the political potential of theatre in the early 20th century, although each director offered more to their actors, collaborators and spectators than simply the staging of politics and the political.>

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• 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2024
• EAN: 9781350445789
• ISBN: 978-1-350-44578-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Great Stage Directors
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Europe, 20th Century, Social & cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production, History of Performing Arts