Terry McCabe

Mis-Directing the Play (eBook, PDF)

An Argument Against Contemporary Theatre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Arguing for a radical reorganization of the stage director's view of his role, Terry McCabe challenges the notion that a play is the director's vehicle for self-expression. The idea of the director as centerpiece of the theatre, he declares, distorts plays and oppresses the actors. Mr. McCabe explores what it means to direct a play when directing is properly understood as a process of self-effacement and faithfulness to the playwright's vision. An eminently sensible polemic delivered with cogent examples and equally cogent arguments. -Nicholas Rudall. A call to responsibility and-dare I say it?-adulthood. It is also the fuel for what could be some constructive arguments among colleagues. -Jeffrey Sweet

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216362968
• Artikelnr.: 75140490

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Terry McCabe

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One of the paradoxes of the theatre is that the artistry of its greatest directors is largely invisible...Terry McCabe raises the curtain on why this must be so.--Gregory Mosher