The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 : Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon, Paperback / softback Book

The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 : Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon Paperback / softback

Edited by Dr Clare Finburgh (Goldsmiths University, UK) Delijani, Professor Peter M. (Aarhus University, Denmark) Boenisch

Part of the Great Stage Directors series

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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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