Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy

Auteurship and Directorial Visions
Herausgeber: Rodosthenous, George

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Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of the director in shaping adaptations for the stage today. Through its focus on a wide range of international productions by Katie Mitchell, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Peter Sellars, Jan Fabre, Ariane Mnouchkine, Tadashi Suzuki, Yukio Ninagawa, Andrei Serban, Nikos Charalambous, Bryan Doerries and Richard Schechner, among others, it offers readers a detailed study of the ways directors have responded to the original texts, refashioning them for different audiences, contexts and purposes. As such the volume will appeal to readers of theatre and performance studies, classics and adaptation studies, directors and theatre practitioners, and anyone who has ever wondered 'why they did it like that' when watching a stage production of an ancient Greek play. The volume Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy is divided in three sections: the first section - Global Perspectives - considers the work of a range of major directors from around the world who have provided new readings of Greek Tragedy: Peter Sellars and Athol Fugard in the US, Katie Mitchell in the UK, Theodoros Terzopoulos in Greece and Tadashi Suzuki and Yukio Ninagawa in Japan. Their work on a wide range of plays is analysed, including Electra, Oedipus the King, The Persians, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Ajax. Parts Two and Three - Directing as Dialogue with the Community and Directorial Re-Visions - focus on a range of productions of key plays from the repertoire, including Prometheus Landscape II, Les Atrides, The Trojan Women, The Bacchae, Antigone and The Suppliants, among others. In each, the varying approaches of different directors are analysed, together with a detailed investigation of the mise-en-scene. In considering each stage production, the authors raise issues of authenticity, contemporary resonances, translation, directorial control/auteurship and adaptation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781472591524
• ISBN-10: 1472591526
• Artikelnr.: 44005156

Autorenporträt

George Rodosthenous is Associate Professor in Theatre Directing at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds, UK. He is the Artistic Director of the theatre company 'Altitude North' and also works as a freelance director/composer for the theatre.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgements Contributors INTRODUCTION: THE
CONTEMPORARY DIRECTOR IN GREEK TRAGEDY - George Rodosthenous PART ONE:
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 1 American Directorial Perspectives: Independence Day
Meets Greek Tragedy - Marianne McDonald (University of California, San
Diego, USA) 2 Greek Contemporary Approaches to Tragedy: Terzopoulos'
revisions of Aeschylus - Avra Sidiropoulou (Open University of Cyprus) 3
British Auteurship and the Greeks: Katie Mitchell - Andrew Haydon
(freelance theatre critic) 4 Tadashi Suzuki and Yukio Ninagawa: Reinventing
the Greek Classics, Reinventing the Japanese Identity after Hiroshima -
Penelope Chatzidimitriou (University of London, UK) PART TWO DIRECTING AS
DIALOGUE WITH THE COMMUNITY 5 Directing Greek Tragedy As A Ritual:
Mystagogy, Religion And Ecstasy - Magdalena Zira (freelance theatre
director) 6 La MaMa's Trojan Women: 40 years of suffering rhythms from
Edinburgh to Guatemala - Adam Strickson (University of Leeds, UK) 7 Theater
of War: Ancient Greek Drama as a Forum for Modern Military Dialogue -
Sophie Klein (Boston University, USA) PART THREE DIRECTORIAL RE-VISIONS 8
Jan Fabre's Prometheus Landscape II: [De]territorialisation of the tragic
and transgressive acts of arson - Demetris Zavros (University of
Wolverhampton, UK) 9 The Bacchae on Stage: Dionysus the Destroyer of
Traditions - George Sampatakakis (University of Patras, Greece) 10 Ariane
Mnouchkine's Les Atrides: Uncovering a Classic - Dominic Glynn (Institute
of Modern Languages Research, UK) 11 Re-imagining Antigone: Contemporary
Resonances in the Directorial Revisioning of Character, Chorus and Staging
- Sue Hamstead (University of Leeds, UK) EXODUS: in search of a
contemporary catharsis - George Rodosthenous Notes Index