By George Rodosthenous
ISBN-10: 1472591526
ISBN-13: 9781472591524
ISBN-10: 1472591534
ISBN-13: 9781472591531
The quantity Contemporary diversifications of Greek Tragedy is divided in 3 sections: the 1st part - international views - considers the paintings of more than a few significant administrators from all over the world who've supplied new readings of Greek Tragedy: Peter Sellars and Athol Fugard within the US, Katie Mitchell within the united kingdom, Theodoros Terzopoulos in Greece and Tadashi Suzuki and Yukio Ninagawa in Japan. Their paintings on quite a lot of performs is analysed, together with Electra, Oedipus the King, The Persians, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Ajax.
components and 3 – Directing as discussion with the group and Directorial Re-Visions - specialise in a number productions of key performs from the repertoire, together with Prometheus panorama II, Les Atrides, The Trojan ladies, The Bacchae, Antigone and The Suppliants, between others. In each one, the various methods of alternative administrators are analysed, including an in depth research of the mise-en-scene. In contemplating each one level construction, the authors increase problems with authenticity, modern resonances, translation, directorial control/auteurship and adaptation.
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