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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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 248 ● ISBN 9781474259941 ● Éditeur Clare Finburgh Delijani & Peter M. Boenisch ● Maison d’édition Bloomsbury Publishing ● Publié 2021 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8183028 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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