1st Edition

The Theatre of Katie Mitchell

Edited By Benjamin Fowler Copyright 2019
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

This first volume in the 4x45 series investigates the work of theatre director Katie Mitchell. Pausing to reconsider a career in progress, it engages with some of Mitchell’s most recent work in the UK and Europe across theatre, opera, and Live Cinema. It also takes a longer view, considering the early turns that Mitchell took at the start of her career in the late 1980s. This volume gives full... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction | Benjamin Fowler

1. Immersive Worlds: Designing Katie Mitchell’s Theatre | Alex Eales in conversation with Benjamin Fowler

2. Katie Mitchell and the Politics of Naturalist Theatre | Dan Rebellato and Kim Solga

3. Willful Distraction: Katie Mitchell, Auteurism and the Canon | Tom Cornford

4. Stages and Screens: Katie Mitchell’s Theatre Aesthetics | Leo Warner in conversation with Janis Jefferies

Biography

Benjamin Fowler is a Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Sussex who writes about directoral practice in contemporary European Theatre. Forthcoming publications include a monograph on the work of Katie Mitchell (Routledge, 2020).