ABSTRACT

Re: Direction is an extraordinary resource for practitioners and students on directing. It provides a collection of ground-breaking interviews, primary sources and essays on 20th century directing theories and practices around the world.
Helpfully organized into four key areas of the subject, the book explores:
* theories of directing
* the boundaries of the director's role
* the limits of categorization
* the history of the theatre and performance art.
Exceptionally useful and thought-provoking introductory essays by editors Schneider and Cody guide you through the wealth of materials included here. Re: Direction is the kind of book anyone interested in theatre history should own, and which will prove an indispensable toolkit for a lifetime of study.

part I|109 pages

Directors of Classical Revolt

chapter 2|9 pages

The Reign of the Theatrical Director

Antoine and Lugné-Pöe

chapter 3|12 pages

Stanislavsky

Uncensored and unabridged

chapter 8|11 pages

Reality is not Enough

An interview with Alan Schneider

chapter 9|6 pages

Brecht as Director

chapter 11|9 pages

Paradise Now!

Notes

part II|92 pages

Auteur Theatre

chapter 15|12 pages

Artaud's Les Cenci

An account by Roger Blin, Artaud's letters, and critical reviews

chapter 18|8 pages

Vessel

The scenography of Meredith Monk

chapter 20|3 pages

Pearls for Pigs

Program notes

chapter 21|18 pages

Aids and Avant-Garde Classicism

Reza Abdoh's Quotations from a Ruined City

chapter 22|13 pages

Woman, Man, Dog, Tree

Two decades of intimate and monumental bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater1

chapter 23|9 pages

Haiku in the Flesh

Oguri's theatre of transmutation

part III|76 pages

Theatres of Community and Transculturation

part IV|80 pages

Montage, Reiteration, Revision

chapter 35|1 pages

Ridiculous Theatre

Scourge of human folly

chapter 36|5 pages

Family of the F.P.

Notes on the Theatre of the Ridiculous

chapter 37|13 pages

Is There a Text on This Stage?

Theatre, authorship, interpretation

chapter 38|15 pages

Island Hopping

Rehearsing the Wooster Group's Brace Up!

chapter 39|5 pages

Hamlet at World's End

Heiner Müller's production in East Berlin

chapter 40|14 pages

Suzan-Lori Parks and Liz Diamond

Doo-a-diddly-dit-dit

chapter 41|5 pages

Three Sisters at Millennium's End

Richard Schechner's production at La Mama