This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth‎-century and contemporary directors have created‎.‎ It discusses artistic and political values‎,‎ rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors‎,‎ designers‎,‎ other collaborators and audiences‎,‎ and treatment of dramatic material‎.‎ Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice‎,‎ Christopher Innes and Maria Shevtsova explore the different rehearsal and staging principles and methods of such earlier groundbreaking figures as Stanislavsky‎,‎ Meyerhold and Brecht‎,‎ revising standard perspectives on their work‎.‎ The authors analyse‎,‎ as well‎,‎ a diverse range of innovative contemporary directors‎,‎ including Ariane Mnouchkine‎,‎ Elizabeth LeCompte‎,‎ Peter Sellars‎,‎ Robert Wilson‎,‎ Thomas Ostermeier and Oskaras Kor unovas‎,‎ among many others‎.‎ While tracing the different roots of directorial practices across time and space‎,‎ and discussing their artistic‎,‎ cultural and political significance‎,‎ the authors provide key examples of the major directorial approaches and reveal comprehensive patterns in the craft of directing and the influence and collaborative relationships of directors‎.‎‎"‎

• Book Name‎:‎ The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing
• Auother‎:‎ Christopher Innes‎,‎ Maria Shevtsova
• Publisher‎:‎ Cambridge University Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780521606226
• Book Type‎:‎ ‎'‎