The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2

Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2

Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht

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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.

Table 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

Product details

Published Apr 18 2024
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781350445789
Imprint Methuen Drama
Illustrations 12 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Great Stage Directors
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Series Editor

Simon Shepherd

SIMON SHEPHERD is Professor of Theatre and Deputy…

Anthology Editor

David Barnett

David Barnett is Professor of Theatre at the Unive…

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