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Author:   Maria M. Delgado ,  Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway University, London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9780367023164

ISBN 10:   0367023164
Pages:   530
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of plates Notes on contributors Foreword by Mark Ravenhill Acknowledgements Revised introduction to first edition Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato Introduction to the second edition Dan Rebellato and Maria M. Delgado 1. Ariane Mnouchkine: Activism, formalism, cosmopolitanism Brian Singleton 2. Patrice Chéreau: Staging the European crisis David Fancy 3. Lev Dodin: The director and cultural memory Peter Lichtenfels 4. Silviu Purcărete: Contemporising classics Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović 5. Frank Castorf and the Volksbühne: Berlin’s theatre of deconstruction Marvin Carlson 6. Daniel Mesguich: ‘Unsummarisable’ mises en scène Jim Carmody (with additional material by Dominic Glynn) 7. Declan Donnellan and Cheek by Jowl: ‘To protect the acting’ Aleks Sierz 8. Piotr Borowski and Poland’s Studium Teatralne: Where process becomes performance Paul Allain 9. Christoph Marthaler: The musicality, theatricality, and politics of postdramatic direction David Barnett 10. Jan Lauwers: Performance realities – memory, history, death Janelle Reinelt 11. Simon McBurney: Shifting under/soaring over the boundaries of Europe Stephen Knapper (with additional material by Dan Rebellato) 12. Ivo van Hove: Celebrity and reader Dennis Flannery 13. Deborah Warner: Experiments of words, bodies, and place Adam J. Ledger 14. Romeo Castellucci: The director on this earth Alan Read 15. Kristian Frédric: Boxing with the ‘gods’ Judith G. Miller 16. Krzysztof Warlikowski: Rupturing taboos, curating publics Bryce Lease 17. Calixto Bieito: Staging excess in, across, and through Europe Maria M. Delgado 18. Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Teatro/Boucherie Théâtre: From the collective to the director Lourdes Orozco 19. Katie Mitchell: Learning from Europe Dan Rebellato 20. Thomas Ostermeier: A ‘sociological theatre’ for the age of globalised precarity Peter M. Boenisch Postscripts 21. Peter Sellars: Identity, culture, and the politics of theatre in Europe Maria M. Delgado 22. The director’s new tasks Patrice Pavis Translated by Joel Anderson Index

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Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Director of Research at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She has published widely in the area of Spanish-language theatre and film. Her books include ‘Other’ Spanish Theatres (2003, revised Spanish-language edition, 2017), Federico García Lorca (2008), and ten co-edited volumes. Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published widely on post-war British theatre and his books include 1956 and All That (1999) and Theatre and Globalization (2009). He is also a playwright whose works have been performed on stage and radio in the UK, Europe, and the USA.

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