PART TWO
• Directing Mimesis
or Theatre as a World of Imitation and Representation
45
• The Duke Georg of Saxe-Meiningen or Directing as a
Representation of Historical Reality 47
• André Antoine or Theatre as a Scientific Representation
of Human Nature 59
• Konstantin Stanislavski or Directing as a Representation
of the Life of the Human Spirit 73
• Bertolt Brecht or Directing as a Representation of
Ideological Truth 87
PART THREE
• Directing Aesthesis
or Theatre as a World of Intuition and Sensation 107
• Antonin Artaud or Director as a Supreme Creator in
the Theatre of Cruelty 111
• The Living Theatre or Directing as a Spontaneous Collective
Creation 125
• Jerzy Grotowski or Theatre of Death and Disappearance
of Directing 141
PART FOUR
• Directing Poiesis
or Theatre as a World of Magic Harmony 159
• Adolphe Appia or Theatre as a Form of Living Art 163
• Vsevolod Meyerhold or Directing in Theatrical Theatre
177
• Peter Brook or Theatre as Reconciled Cultures in an
Empty Space 193
EPILOGUE
• The Ever Shifting Future
of Directing 213
Bibliography 223
Index 231 |
