Rubén Szuchmacher

The Uncapturable (eBook, PDF)

The Fleeting Art of Theatre
Übersetzer: Gregory, William

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Uncapturable is a wide-ranging reflection on the art of the mise en scène from the perspective of leading Argentinian theatre director Rubén Szuchmacher. It offers a timely and concise, though comprehensive, survey of the role and responsibility of the theatre director from the earliest times to the twenty-first century.

Szuchmacher defines theatre as the confluence of four art forms - architecture, visual art, sound and literature - whose works only truly exist in the moment of encounter with an audience. He argues that, by taking full account of these four art forms, analysing them in detail and engaging thoughtfully with the many specialists who come together to bring a mise en scène into being, the director of today can still create work that innovates and inspires.

The Uncapturable is as valuable to the apprentice director emerging from their training as it is to the veteran in need of fresh reflection. Szuchmacher draws on the unique learnings gleaned from working in Argentina, be it the impact on theatre of politics, the need for inventiveness in times of hardship, the phenomenon of Argentine 'circus theatre' or the adaptation of literary giants such as Borges, affording the Anglophone reader an alternative perspective on the ideas of theatre we often take for granted.

Szuchmacher offers a unique blend of global knowledge, historical awareness and a pragmatic, resourceful and creative approach from a theatre artist working in Latin American through decades of change.

The book is translated from the Spanish by William Gregory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350138865
• Artikelnr.: 60035620

Autorenporträt

Rubén Szuchmacher is one of Argentina's leading theatre and opera directors, who has directed in his country's major institutions and toured worldwide. He is also a stage and screen actor and choreographer, has managed theatre buildings and has taught theatre direction in universities in Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay. In 2016, he was awarded a Premio de la Trayectoria (lifetime achievement award) by the Argentine Instituto Nacional de Teatro (National Theatre Institute).

William Gregory is a translator whose translations of leading Spanish and Latin American dramatists have been produced by the Royal Court Theatre, Gate Theatre and the BBC. He is a regular translator and script advisor for the international department at the Royal Court Theatre, translation editor for the online theatre journal The Theatre Times and a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Object and Action (1 & 2) Part One The Arts in the Mise en
Scène Architecture The Historical Features of Spaces The Shape of Space The
Effective Space Visual Art The Awareness of the Eye The Visual and its
Costs The Eye of the Beholder Sound Art How Long Does Something Last? Music
Sound versus Noise Acoustic Sound and Amplified Sound Voices Literature
Words Language The Hypothesis of Performance Texts to be Read and Texts to
be Heard Text Analysis Part Two The Place of the Director Who Directs? The
Uncapturable (1 and 2) The Director's Word Teamwork The Director and their
Place as Spectator Danger in the Performing Arts Questions Simultaneity Art
or Entertainment Tours and Transfers Actors at the Centre of the System The
Arbitrary and the Law Friction Acknowledgements