The Director & The Stage: From Naturalism to GrotowskiBeginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Artuaud and Grotowski. Braun's guide is more practical than theoretical, delineating how each director changed the tradition that came before him. |
Contents
Antoine and the Théâtre Libre | 2 |
The Symbolist Theatre | 1885 |
Alfred Jarry | 1903 |
Stanislavsky and Chekhov | |
Edward Gordon Craig | |
Max Reinhardt in Germany and Austria | |
The First Five Years | |
Theatre as Propaganda | |
Piscator in Berlin | |
Brechts Formative Years | |
Artauds Theatre of Cruelty | |
Grotowskis Laboratory Theatre | |
Afterword | |
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