Sidney Berger

Playwright versus Director

Authorial Intentions and Performance Interpretations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Giving equal space to the sanctity of script and the artistic freedom of directors, this book addresses the difficulties encountered by playwrights and directors as they bring a script to the stage. Inspired directors can help a writer of genius turn his play into exciting theatre, but playwrights find that giving directors leeway to interpret and modify text can result in directors' overriding authorial intentions. This book presents the best that has been written by literary theorists on the current definitions of text and attempts to depart from quick rule-of-thumb assessments of the problem. Drawing from definitive articles in literary and theatre journals, part one gives the reader basic concepts and terminology. Interviews with playwrights and directors, showing the complexity of the issue, appear in part two, and part three includes case studies of playwrights and directors who faced production crises. Legal aspects of collaboration are considered in part four. The book concludes with a positive approach and possible solution to the problem.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780313286797
• ISBN-10: 0313286795
• Artikelnr.: 21871649

Autorenporträt

Sidney Berger

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Theories of Authorship and Interpretation Literary Assumptions about Text Literature's New Criticism Applied to Theatre Remarks of Playwrights and Directors Alley Forum: Playwrights
Directors
and the Postmodern Stage Robert Anderson
Playwright Sidney Berger
Director Danny Mann
Director
and Edward Albee
Playwright Lanford Wilson
Playwright Robert Wilson
Performer
Director
Writer Jose Quintero
Director Tiers of Director/Playwright Interchange: Five Case Studies A "Director's Director": Tennessee Williams and A Streetcar Named Desire A Tyrant Director? William Inge and Joshua Logan A Director's Distortion of a Modern Classic: Arthur Miller's Shift in Stance A Playwright-Director with a Classic: Albee's Direction of Beckett Director
Playwright
and Cast: Caryl Churchill's Approach to Text Theatre Aesthetics and the Law Contractual Provisions of the Dramatists' Guild
Inc. Collaboration and American Law: The Rights of Playwrights: Performance Theory and American Law by Robert Hapgood Afterword Works Cited General Bibliography Index