Revisionist Stage American Directors Reinvent the Classics

Name: Revisionist Stage American Directors Reinvent the Classics
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ISBN: 9780521028929

ISBN-10: 0521028922

ISBN-13: 9780521028929

Edition: 2006

Authors: Amy S. Green, Don B. Wilmeth

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This book explores the vision and talents of a controversial group of artists who, depending on one's perspective, either revitalized or disfigured the standard dramatic repertoire by adapting canonical dramas for the contemporary American stage. Amy S. Green's critical history features the bold directorial ventures of JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Liviu Ciulei, Richard Foreman, Joseph Papp, Lucian Pintilie, Richard Schechner, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Robert Woodruff, and Garland Wright. Green covers Greek and Roman drama, plays by Shakespeare and Molire, and the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, and discusses in detail many landmark theatrical events of the past thirty years. This…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface



Reinventing classic theatre



Historical precedents in Europe and America



Greek and Roman plays



The plays of Shakespeare



The plays of Moliere



Peter Sellar's Mozart-da Ponte trilogy



The classics, postmodernism, and the question of coherence


Notes


Bibliography


Index