Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and
Directorial Visions provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of
the director in shaping adaptations for the stage today. Through
its focus on a wide range of international productions by Katie
Mitchell, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Peter Sellars, Jan Fabre, Ariane
Mnouchkine, Tadashi Suzuki, Yukio Ninagawa, Andrei Serban, Nikos
Charalambous, Bryan Doerries and Richard Schechner, among others,
it offers readers a detailed study of the ways directors have
responded to the original texts, refashioning them for different
audiences, contexts and purposes. As such the volume will appeal to
readers of theatre and performance studies, classics and adaptation
studies, directors and theatre practitioners, and anyone who has
ever wondered 'why they did it like that' when watching a stage
production of an ancient Greek play. The volume Contemporary
Adaptations of Greek Tragedy is divided in three sections: the
first section - Global Perspectives - considers the work of a range
of major directors from around the world who have provided new
readings of Greek Tragedy: Peter Sellars and Athol Fugard in the
US, Katie Mitchell in the UK, Theodoros Terzopoulos in Greece and
Tadashi Suzuki and Yukio Ninagawa in Japan. Their work on a wide
range of plays is analysed, including Electra, Oedipus the King,
The Persians, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Ajax. Parts Two and Three -
Directing as Dialogue with the Community and Directorial Re-Visions
- focus on a range of productions of key plays from the repertoire,
including Prometheus Landscape II, Les Atrides, The Trojan Women,
The Bacchae, Antigone and The Suppliants, among others. In each,
the varying approaches of different directors are analysed,
together with a detailed investigation of the mise-en-scene. In
considering each stage production, the authors raise issues of
authenticity, contemporary resonances, translation, directorial
control/auteurship and adaptation.
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