{"product_id":"the-great-european-stage-directors-volume-6-9781350445826","title":"The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators  Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht  and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politically-engaged directors' theatre'. It argues that, in creating their major productions in the prosperous glorious decades' that followed the devastation of the Second World War, they represent a first expressly European' generation of theatre directors. Revisiting works from the classical dramatic canon by drawing on popular theatre traditions, and reaching out to spectators beyond the educated middle-class elite, they put theatre in the service of uniting a traumatized continent. This study posits that for Littlewood, Strehler and Planchon, theatre has the capacity to create communities.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407558386007,"sku":"9781350445826","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350445826.jpg?v=1730499760","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-great-european-stage-directors-volume-6-9781350445826","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}