20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe, Gebunden
20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe
- 30 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
- Publisher:
- Kalina Stefanova, Marvin Carlson
- Publisher:
- Springer, 05/2021
- Binding:
- Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030529345
- Item number:
- 10572072
- Volume:
- 356 Pages
- Weight:
- 573 g
- Format:
- 216 x 153 mm
- Thickness:
- 24 mm
- Release date:
- 22.5.2021
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Directors have long been the main figures on Eastern European stages. During the last three decades some of the most outstanding among them have risen to international stardom thanks to their ground-breaking productions that speak to audiences far beyond local borders. Not by chance, a considerable number of these directors have won the second-biggest theatre award on the continent the European Prize for (New) Theatrical Realities. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the top directors of the region have been pushing contemporary theatre as a whole ahead into new territories. This book offers informative and in-depth portraits of twenty of these directors, written by leading critics, scholars, and researchers, who shed light on the directors signature styles with examples of their emblematic productions and outline the reasons for their impact. In addition, in two chapters the selected directors themselves discuss their artistic family trees as well as the main stakestheatre faces today. The book will be of interest to theatre scholars, students, and anybody engaged with theatre on a global scale.
Biography (Marvin Carlson)
Marvin Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. at Cornell University and served on the faculties of Cornell and Indiana before coming to CUNY. He has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, the ATHE Career Achievement Award, the ASTR Distinguished Scholarship Award, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the§Calloway Prize for writing in theatre and drama. He has served as a judge for the Cairo Festival of Experimental Theatre and the Onaissis Playwriting Awards. He is the founding editor of the journal Western European Stages and the author of over two hundred scholarly articles and fourteen books in§the areas of theatre history, theatre theory, dramatic literature, and performance studies.
