Luk Van den Dries

Observations of a Creative Process

Corpus Jan Fabre

Simon Shepherd

Michael Patterson

Paul Allain

Jonathan Pitches

David Barnett

Peter M. Boenisch

Peta Tait

Timmy De Laet

Clare Finburgh

Felicia Hardison Londreʹ

This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre as 3 leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on post-war European theatre. Combining in-depth discussions of the artists' poetics with detailed case studies of several famous and lesser-known key works, the authors featured in this volume trace a range of foundational aesthetic strategies that are central to the directors' work: the dynamics of repetition vis-à-vis fragmentation, the continued significance of language in experimental theatre and dance, the tension between theatricality and the performative reality of the stage, and the equal importance attached to text, image and body. This volume develops a vivid picture of how European stage directors have continued to redefine their own position and role throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

Bausch, Castellucci, Fabre

The Great European Stage Directors Volume 8

Thomas Crombez

Jelle Koopmans

Frank J. Peeters

Karel Vanhaesebrouck

Overzicht van de Westerse theatergeschiedenis met aandacht voor de sociale betekenis en de maatschappelijke status van het theater, afgesloten met een bespreking van een aantal Vlaamse theatermakers.

een westerse geschiedenis

Theater

Ideological heterogeneity in mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands In many European countries mass theatre was a widespread expression of ‘community art’ which became increasingly popular shortly before the First World War. From Max Reinhardt’s lavish open-air spectacles to socialist workers’ Laienspiel (lay theatre), theatre visionaries focused on ever larger groups for entertainment as well as political agitation. Despite wide research on the Soviet and German cases, examples from the Low Countries have hardly been examined. However, mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands had a distinctive character, displaying an ideological heterogeneity not seen elsewhere. Mass Theatre in Interwar Europe studies this peculiar phenomenon of the Low Countries in its European context and sheds light on the broader framework of mass movements in the interwar period.

Flanders and the Netherlands in an International Perspective

Mass Theatre in Interwar Europe

Luk Van den Dries

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