This is an introduction to the life-changing theatre of Easterm Europe with a host of examples from unforgettable productions by the directors included in the book.Among the accents are:the treatment of the classics w...This is an introduction to the life-changing theatre of Easterm Europe with a host of examples from unforgettable productions by the directors included in the book.Among the accents are:the treatment of the classics where the focus is often not on the letter but on what enlivens it;the tendency for creation of a vertical theatre reality by some of the directors who dispense with nearly all material on stage,including to a large degree the writen word;an unusual political theatre that could rather be called a politics-of-the-soul theatre;another tendency with something like a contemporary type of a Chorus-cum-main-character taking center stage sort of a dramatic(or tragie)hero in plural.The text is a foreword of the book 20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe,edited by Kalina Stefanova and Marvin Carlson,published recently by Palgrave Macmillan.It elaborates on the main criteria for the choice of the 20 directors included in the book.Finally,the text touches upon the situation of thetheatre in a time of pandemics.展开更多
文摘This is an introduction to the life-changing theatre of Easterm Europe with a host of examples from unforgettable productions by the directors included in the book.Among the accents are:the treatment of the classics where the focus is often not on the letter but on what enlivens it;the tendency for creation of a vertical theatre reality by some of the directors who dispense with nearly all material on stage,including to a large degree the writen word;an unusual political theatre that could rather be called a politics-of-the-soul theatre;another tendency with something like a contemporary type of a Chorus-cum-main-character taking center stage sort of a dramatic(or tragie)hero in plural.The text is a foreword of the book 20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe,edited by Kalina Stefanova and Marvin Carlson,published recently by Palgrave Macmillan.It elaborates on the main criteria for the choice of the 20 directors included in the book.Finally,the text touches upon the situation of thetheatre in a time of pandemics.
