The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 - Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon

This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators - Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht - and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politically-engaged ''directors'' theatre''. It argues that, in creating their major productions in the prosperous ''glorious decades'' that followed the devastation of the Second World War, they represent a first expressly ''European'' generation of theatre directors. Revisiting works from the classical dramatic canon by drawing on popular theatre traditions, and reaching out to spectators beyond the educated middle-class elite, they put theatre in the service of uniting a traumatized continent. This study posits that for Littlewood, Strehler and Planchon, theatre has the capacity to create communities.>

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• Authors: Peter M Boenisch, Clare Finburgh Delijani, Shep
• Assisted by: Peter M. Boenisch (Editor), Clare Finburgh Delijani (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: 9781350445826
• ISBN: 978-1-350-44582-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 14 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, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production, History of Performing Arts