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Great Directors at Work: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook - Softcover

Jones, David Richard Richard

 
9780520061743: Great Directors at Work: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520061748 ISBN 13: 9780520061743
Verlag: University of California Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

The subject of this book is theatre directing in four internationally famous instances. The four directors—Konstantin Stanislavsky, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and Peter Brook—all were monarchs of the profession in their time. Without their work, theatre in the twentieth century—so often called "the century of the director" —would have a radically different shape and meaning. The four men are also among the dozen or so modern directors whose theatrical achievements have become culture phenomena. In histories, theories, hagiographies, and polemics, these directors are conferred classic stature, as are the four plays on which they worked. Chekhov's The Seagull, Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, and Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire have long been recognized, in the theatre and in the study, as masterpieces. They are anthologized, quoted, taught, parodied, read, and produced constantly and globally. The culturally conservative might question the presence of MaratiSade in such august company, but Peter Weiss's play stands every chance of figuring in Western repertories, classroom study, and theatrical histories until well into the twenty-first century. In their quite different ways, these are all classics of that Western drama which is part of our immediate heritage.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Richard Jones teaches English and Theatre Arts at the University of New Mexico.

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"The book is organized like a set of four casebooks, and it encapsulates, succinctly and with remarkably little jargon, four crucial ages in the life of modern theatre."
--John Peter, Times Literary Supplement
 
"These four chapters present directors in different postures: Stanislavsky with his thorough paper visualization of The Seagull, Brecht as pedagogue paying relentless attention to detail, Kazan 'in the complexity of high-wire directing in the high-pressure commercial zone,' and Brook as the 'director auteur whose productions originate in his workshop.'. . . A valuable and often fascinating book."
--Gerard Werson, The Stage
 
"This book offers four brilliant essays on the rarely handled art of stage directing. In reconstructing four of the most influential productions in recent history, Dr. Jones fills a gap in the literature of modern directing.  . . .Theater historians, critics, and practitioners should receive this book as an outstanding contribution to the art and craft of the living stage."
--William Melnitz, University of California, Los Angeles

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"The book is organized like a set of four casebooks, and it encapsulates, succinctly and with remarkably little jargon, four crucial ages in the life of modern theatre."
--John Peter, Times Literary Supplement
 
"These four chapters present directors in different postures: Stanislavsky with his thorough paper visualization of The Seagull, Brecht as pedagogue paying relentless attention to detail, Kazan 'in the complexity of high-wire directing in the high-pressure commercial zone,' and Brook as the 'director auteur whose productions originate in his workshop.'. . . A valuable and often fascinating book."
--Gerard Werson, The Stage
 
"This book offers four brilliant essays on the rarely handled art of stage directing. In reconstructing four of the most influential productions in recent history, Dr. Jones fills a gap in the literature of modern directing.  . . .Theater historians, critics, and practitioners should receive this book as an outstanding contribution to the art and craft of the living stage."
--William Melnitz, University of California, Los Angeles

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520061748
ISBN 13 
9780520061743
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Anzahl der Seiten
300
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