Michael Patterson

Peter Stein

Germany's Leading Theatre Director
Herausgeber: Innes, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

From interviews and archives, Michael Patterson vividly recreates Stein's performances of varied theatrical texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521295024
• ISBN-10: 0521295025
• Artikelnr.: 24968726

Autorenporträt

Michael Patterson was born and educated in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. After thirty five years working in Marketing and Senior Management, with Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Esselte, redundancy gave him the opportunity his own on line business, selling lamination machines and consumables, as well as finding time to write crime novels. It also gave him the time to concentrate on his writing. Married with two children, he lives in Frimley Green, Surrey.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Exploring styles - Bond's Saved, Brecht's In
the Jungle of Cities and Weiss's Vietnam-Discourse; 2. The Brechtian
approach to the classics - Schiller's Intrigue and Love and Goethe's
Torquato Tasso; 3. Theatre structures old and new - Bond's Early Morning
and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling in Zurich, and the move to the
Schaubühne, Berlin; 4. Theatre of revolution - Brecht's The Mother,
Worker's Theatre and Vishnevsky's Optimistic Tragedy; 5. The myth of
bourgeois individualism - Ibsen's Peer Gynt; 6. From bourgeois past to
bourgeois present - Kleist's Prinz von Homburg, Labishe's Piggy Bank, the
Antiquity Project, Gorky's Summerfolk, Handke and Botho Strauss; 7.
Confrontation with Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Memory and As You Like it;
8. Conclusion - Stein the explorer and the Schaubühne as model;
Bibliography; Index.