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From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage
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From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage

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The careers, directing accomplishments, ideas and techniques of six directors of the European stage are surveyed in this study: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Max Reinhardt, Jacques Copeau, Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Louis Barrault - representative of the spectrum of directorial art as it has developed in this century. In the introduction, aspects of the director’s art exemplified by these innovators are identified and examined: their choice of repertory, from the intellectually provocative to the escapist; stylistic attitudes toward production, from Stanislavsky’s spiritual naturalism to Meyerhold’s biomechanics and constructivism; rehearsal methods from the dictatorials to the openly collaborative; and a continuing fascination with the shape and function of the performance space. Many of the directors emerge a multifaceted hommes de theatre writing, directing, acting, designing sets and lighting and producing.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Date
19 April 1991
Pages
264
ISBN
9780313276613

The careers, directing accomplishments, ideas and techniques of six directors of the European stage are surveyed in this study: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Max Reinhardt, Jacques Copeau, Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Louis Barrault - representative of the spectrum of directorial art as it has developed in this century. In the introduction, aspects of the director’s art exemplified by these innovators are identified and examined: their choice of repertory, from the intellectually provocative to the escapist; stylistic attitudes toward production, from Stanislavsky’s spiritual naturalism to Meyerhold’s biomechanics and constructivism; rehearsal methods from the dictatorials to the openly collaborative; and a continuing fascination with the shape and function of the performance space. Many of the directors emerge a multifaceted hommes de theatre writing, directing, acting, designing sets and lighting and producing.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Date
19 April 1991
Pages
264
ISBN
9780313276613