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

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

The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6

Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon

Dr Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths University, UK), Professor Peter M. Boenisch (Aarhus University, Denmark), Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)

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Methuen Drama
16 May 2024

Theatre direction & production; Social & cultural history

Series: Great Stage Directors

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.

Edited by: Dr Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths University UK), Professor Peter M. Boenisch (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Series edited by: Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama University of London UK)
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350445826
ISBN 10: 1350445827
Series: Great Stage Directors
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 16 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clare Finburgh is Reader in European Theatre at Goldsmiths College, UK. Peter M. Boenisch is Professor of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University, Denmark.