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PublisherManchester University Press

ISBN-101526123010

ISBN-139781526123015

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Book TitleDirecting Scenes and Senses : the Thinking of Regie

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicTheater / General, Theater / Direction & Production

Publication Year2017

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts

AuthorPeter Boenisch

Book SeriesTheatre: Theory-Practice-Performance Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Table Of ContentPreface. The dissensus of Regie: Re-thinking "directors' theatre"I. Mise en scène to mise en sens: Towards an aesthetic politics of Regie 1. Regie beyond representation: Directing the 'sensible' 2. The restless spirit of Regie: Hegel, theatrality, and the magic of speculative thinking 3. Theatre as dialectic institution: Friedrich Schiller and the liberty of play 4. The essence of the text and its actualisation: Leopold Jessner, the playwright's radical servant II. The theatral appearing of ideas: Regie in contemporary European theatre 5. The tremor of speculative negation: On Regie, truth, and ex-position 6. Seeing what is coming: On Regie, playing, and appearing 7. The intermedial parallax: On Regie, media, and spectating 8. Theatre in the age of semiocapitalism: On Regie, realism, and political critique Afterthought: The future of Regie? Bibliography Index

SynopsisAs European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful cliches that pit, above all, the director against the playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between Continental theatre and Continental philosophy.The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf, Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the works of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative dialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Ranciere and Slavoj Zizek in order to explore the thinking of Regie - how to think Regie, and how Regie thinks. -- ., As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts., As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful clichés that pit, above all, the director against the playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between Continental theatre and Continental philosophy. The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf, Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the works of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative dialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Zizek in order to explore the thinking of Regie - how to think Regie, and how Regie thinks., As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful clichés that pit, above all, the director against the playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between Continental theatre and Continental philosophy. The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf, Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the works of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative dialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Rancière and Slavoj zizek in order to explore the thinking of Regie - how to think Regie, and how Regie thinks., As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful cliches that pit, above all, the director against the playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between Continental theatre and Continental philosophy. The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf, Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the works of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative dialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Ranciere and Slavoj Zizek in order to explore the thinking of Regie how to think Regie, and how Regie thinks.

LC Classification NumberPN2053