The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6

Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon

By: Dr Clare Finburgh Delijani (Editor), Simon Shepherd (Editor), Professor Peter M. Boenisch (Editor)

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Paperback | 16 May 2024

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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 â" Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht â" and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politically-engaged âdirectorsâ theatreâ. It argues that, in creating their major productions in the prosperous âglorious decadesâ that followed the devastation of the Second World War, they represent a first expressly âEuropeanâ 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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