Directors & Designers
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Part I: Setting the Scene
Chapter 1: Back and Forth to Russia: Scenography as an Academic Study from Moscow 1994-St Petersburg 2004
Christine White
Part II: Performing Partners
Chapter 2: Hand in Glove: The Designer as Director as Designer
Charles Erven
Chapter 3: Political Performing Partners: Director Lee Strasberg, Scene Designer Mordecai Gorelik, Playwright John Howard Lawson and the Group Theatre
Anne Fletcher
Chapter 4: The Director, the Designer and the Ghost/Creative Team in Site-Specific Performance Practice
Kathleen Irwin
Chapter 5: Director Petr Lébl and Designer William Nowák: To a Man
Věra Velemanová
Chapter 6: The Organics of the Rehearsal Room: Contemporary Directing Practice and the Director-Designer Relationship
Alison Oddey
Chapter 7: Collaborative Models: Mielziner, Williams and Kazan
Julia Listengarten
Chapter 8: Problematics of Theatrical Negotiations: Directing, Scenography and State Ideology
Julia Listengarten
Chapter 9: Methodological Practices for Directing and Designing
Christine White
Chapter 10: The Digital Platform as a Communication Tool
Adele Keeley
Part III: Metaphors, Metatheatre & Methodologies
Chapter 11: The Seductive Scene or Reclaiming Spectacle
Christine White
Chapter 12: Metatheatre: A Discourse on Contemporary Staging
Ewa Wąchocka
Chapter 13: A Metaphorical Mise-en-Scène: Elia Kazan and Max Gorelik at The Group Theatre
Scott Dahl
Chapter 14: Ideational Conflict and Resolution in the Design Process: Positive Outcomes from Negative Relationships
Harry Feiner
Chapter 15: Design a Action: Jean Cocteau and the Ballets Russes
Gregory Sporton
Part IV: Postscript to the Director
Chapter 16: From Hamlet with Love: A Letter to the Other
Lilja Blumenfeld
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
“Considering designers from the infamous (Jo Mielziner, Max Gorelik) to Jean Cocteau (and his contributions to “design as action”), these sixteen essays by theater designers and practitioners reveal both successful and flawed collaborations among designers, directors, and playwrights. Others have treated this subject . . . but White makes a valuable addition in bringing together theory, scholarship, and professional practice. Highly recommended.”
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