Directors’ Theatre

✍ Scribed by David Bradby, David Williams (auth.)

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 287
Series: Modern Dramatists
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The major presentations of seven post-war directors are examined in detail, with emphasis on each individual's treatment of classic plays, approach to acting techniques and opinion of theatre's ongoing role and function in the second half of the 20th century.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Rise of the Director....Pages 1-23
Joan Littlewood....Pages 24-50
Roger Planchon....Pages 51-83
Ariane Mnouchkine....Pages 84-111
Jerzy Grotowski....Pages 112-144
Peter Brook....Pages 145-185
Peter Stein....Pages 186-223
Robert Wilson....Pages 224-261
Back Matter....Pages 262-275

✦ Subjects

Theatre and Performance Studies

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