1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners Volume Two

Edited By Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney Copyright 2021
    544 Pages
    by Routledge

    544 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.

    Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice.

    All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.

    Acknowledgements

    Notes on Contributors

    Introduction

    11. KANTOR (19151990) – Noel Witts

    11.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT

    11.2 KEY PERFORMANCES

    12. HALPRIN (1920–) – Libby Worth and Helen Poynor

    12.1 LIFE AND WORK

    12.2 THE MOUNTAIN PERFORMANCES, CIRCLE THE EARTH AND THE PLANETARY DANCE

    13. LECOQ (19211999) Simon Murray

    13.1 THE LIFE OF JACQUES LECOQ

    13.2 TRACES OF JACQUES LECOQ: THÉÂTRE DE COMPLICITÉ’S STREET OF CROCODILES AND THE WORK OF MUMMENSCHANZ

    14. BOAL (19312009) Frances Babbage

    14.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT

    14.2 FORUM THEATRE IN PRODUCTION

    15. GROTOWSKI (1933 1999)  James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta

    15.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT

    15.2 GROTOWSKI AS DIRECTOR

    16. BARBA (1936–) – Jane Turner

    16.1 BUILDING A ‘SMALL TRADITION’

    16.2 A SPECTATOR’S VIEW OF EGO FAUST

    17. MNOUCHKINE (1939 –)  Judith G. Miller

    17.1 INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHY: NOMAD OF THE IMAGINATION

    17.2 FOUR KEY PRODUCTIONS: MNOUCHKINE’S "FANATICALLY THEATRICAL"

    18. BAUSCH (1940 2009) Royd Climenhaga

    18.1 AN ARTISTIC AND CONTEXTUAL HISTORY

    18.2 KONTAKTHOF IN CONTEXT

    19. WILSON (1941–) – Maria Shevtsova

    19.1 A WORKING LIFE

    19.2 EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH AND PUSHKIN’S FAIRYTALES

    20. ABRAMOVIC (1946–) – Mary Richards

    20.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT

    20.2 KEY WORKS

    21. LEPAGE (1957–) – Aleksandar Saša Dundjerovic

    21.1 CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHY: ROBERT LEPAGE IN-BETWEEN WORLDS

    21.2 PERFORMANCE TEXT: THE DRAGONS’ TRILOGY

    Index

    Biography

    Franc Chamberlain is Professor of Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK and the series editor for Routledge Performance Practitioners.

    Bernadette Sweeney is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Theatre & Dance at the University of Montana, USA and co-editor with Franc Chamberlain of the expanded Routledge Performance Practitioners series.