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Peter Boenisch - Directing scenes and senses: The thinking of Regie (Theatre Theory Practice Performance MUP) - 9780719097195 - V9780719097195
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Directing scenes and senses: The thinking of Regie (Theatre Theory Practice Performance MUP)

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As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful clichés that pit, above all, the director against the playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between Continental theatre and Continental philosophy.

The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf, Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the works of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative dialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Rancière ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Series
Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719097195
SKU
V9780719097195
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Peter Boenisch
Peter M. Boenisch is Co-Director of the European Theatre Research Network (ETRN) and a Fellow of the International Research Centre 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' -- .

Reviews for Directing scenes and senses: The thinking of Regie (Theatre Theory Practice Performance MUP)
'We all have difficulty understanding the differences between directing, staging, devising, performing, or between performance and mise en scène. Peter Boenisch’s new book on Regie discusses how contemporary theatre-makers engage with plays, materials or events that they want to 'put on stage'. As theatre-goers are themselves more and more expected to 'stage' their own impressions and insights, this is a ... Read more

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