Charles Ney

Directing Shakespeare in America (eBook, PDF)

Historical Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This unique and comprehensive study reviews the practice of leading American directors of Shakespeare from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Charles Ney examines rehearsal and production records, as well as evidence from diaries, letters, autobiographies, reviews and photographs to consider each director's point of view when approaching Shakespeare and the differing directorial tools and techniques employed in significant productions in their careers.

Directors covered include Augustin Daly, David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Orson Welles, Margaret Webster, B. Iden Payne, Angus Bowmer, Craig Noel, Jack O'Brien, Tyronne Guthrie, John Houseman, Allen Fletcher, Michael Kahn, Gerald Freedman, Joseph Papp, Stuart Vaughan, A. J. Antoon, JoAnne Akalaitis, Paul Barry, Tina Packer, Barbara Gaines, William Ball, Liviu Ciulei, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Ellis Rabb and Julie Taymor. Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives offers readers an understanding of the context from which contemporary practitioners operate, the aesthetic philosophies to which they subscribe and a description of their rehearsal methods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474289719
• Artikelnr.: 54681128

Autorenporträt

Charles Ney is a professor and Head of Directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University, USA. He has been artistic director at Manhattan Clearing House Contemporary Performing Arts Center, Idaho Repertory Theatre and Mary Moody Northen Theatre. Other directing credits include New York City's Working Man's Clothes Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Illinois Shakespeare Festival and Texas Shakespeare Festival.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 First American Directors, 1870s
1940s 2 B. Iden Payne, Angus Bowmer and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1930s
1990s 3 Craig Noel, Jack O'Brien and The Old Globe: 1930s
1990s; Tyrone Guthrie's Influence: 1950s
1970s 4 American Shakespeare Festival Theatre: 1950s
1980s 5 New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater: 1950s
1990s 6 Shakespeare Festival Directors and Theatres: 1950s
1990s 7 New York City and Regional Theatre Directors: 1950s
1990s Conclusion References Index