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Loading... Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Peter Brookby James Roose-Evans
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Yeah, all of it: Grotowski, Bread & Puppet, The Living, Meyerhold, Martha Graham, Cage, Brook. Julian Beck on why the Living Theatre is so assaultive, with its "wild, daemonic energies": "If only we can make the audience feel pain at a public ceremony, this may be the route by which we enable him to find the way back to his feelings, so that he will never want to commit violence again." Julian further hopes that it will "drive people to change things." Nope. Whenever I see the Living, I feel so assaulted that I want to run home and bury my head in my pillow. Fear is not a change motivator. ( ) James Roose-Evans, one of Britain's most experienced and innovative directors, and founder of the Hampstead Theatre (which celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1984), surveys the history of the avant-garde in the theatre. He traces its origins through such key figures as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Craig, Appia, Copeau, Piscator, Brecht, Grotowski and up to the most recent experiments of Peter Brook's Mahabharata. This is a second, enlarged edition of a highly successful and widely-used book. As James Roose-Evans himself writes: 'I am convinced that if one is a practitioner of theatre it is an essential part of one's task to see and know what is going on in all of the arts. We have much to learn from one another as well as from the lessons of history.' no reviews | add a review
`It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John Lahr No library descriptions found. |
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