Experimental Theatre From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook

Name: Experimental Theatre From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook
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ISBN: 9780415009638

ISBN-10: 0415009634

ISBN-13: 9780415009638

Edition: 4th 1989 (Revised)

Authors: James Roose-Evans

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James Roose-Evans, one of Britain's most experienced and innovative directors, and founder of the Hampstead Theatre (which celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1984), surveys the history of the avant-garde in the theatre. He traces its origins through such key figures as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Craig, Appia, Copeau, Piscator, Brecht, Grotowski and up to the most recent experiments of Peter Brook'sMahabharata. This is a second, enlarged edition of a highly successful and widely-used book. As James Roose-Evans himself writes: 'I am convinced that if one is a practitioner of theatre it is an essential part of one's task to see and know what is going on in all of the arts. We have much…

Book details

List price: $51.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/11/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Stanislavsky's Life in Art



The School of Realism



Meyerhold and the Russian Avant-garde



Tairov and the Synthetic Theatre



Vakhtangov's Achievement



Craig and Appia - Visionaries



Copeau - Father of the Modern Theatre



Reinhardt, Piscator and Brecht



The Theatre of Ecstasy - Artaud, Okhlopkov, Savary



The Contribution of the Modern Dance - Martha Graham and Alwin Nikolais



Further Experiments Today - in America



Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson and the Bread and Puppet Theatre



Anna Halprin and the Dancers' Workshop



Grotowski and the Poor Theatre



Grotowski and the Journey to the East



Eugenio Barba and the Third Theatre



The Mountain with Many Caves: Peter Brook, Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart



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Epilogue


Bibliography


Recommended Further Reading


Index