Mis-Directing the Play: An Argument Against Contemporary Theatre - Couverture rigide

McCabe, Terry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1566633532 ISBN 13 : 9781566633536

Editeur : Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Book by McCabe Terry

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Terry McCabe, himself an accomplished stage director and teacher of theatre arts, here attacks what he calls the growing decadence that plagues contemporary stage directing. He argues for a radical reorganization of the director? s view of his role. It has become an article of faith in the theatre, Mr. McCabe observes, that a play is about what the director chooses to have it be about. But what right does a director have to treat a play as a found object, to be reshaped to express the director? s concerns? None whatsoever, Mr. McCabe replies. He examines anecdotally a range of work by different directors by way of offering a substantial critique of today? s leading theory of stage directing, and he offers an alternate approach. He challenges the notion that a play is the director? s vehicle for self-expression, arguing that the idea of the director as centerpiece of the theatre tends to distort plays and oppress actors. He explores what it means to direct a play when directing is properly understood as a process of self-effacement. Mis-directing the Play examines the role of the director as collaborator with actors, designers, dramaturges, and playwrights. Throughout, the book? s focus is on shedding the counterproductive myth of the director as creative auteur and urging in its place a return to first principles: the idea of the director as the interpretive artist in charge of putting the playwright? s play onstage.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1566633532
• ISBN 13: 9781566633536
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128