The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2

David Barnett is Professor of Theatre at the University of York, UK.

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction to the Series, Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK)
Introduction to Volume 2, David Barnett (University of York, UK)

Vsevolod Meyerhold

1. Educating the Director: Meyerhold’s Pedagogy for a Theatre of Conventions, Bryan Brown and Olya Petrakova (University of Exeter, UK)
2. Directing Theatrical Space: Meyerhold’s Reconstruction of the Theatre, Amy Skinner (University of Hull, UK)

Erwin Piscator

3. Erwin Piscator: Staging Politics in the Weimar Republic, Minou Arjomand (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
4. Moving Theatre Back to the Spotlight: Erwin Piscator’s Later Stage Work, Klaus Wannemacher (freelance writer, Germany)

Bertolt Brecht

5. Brecht as Corrector: Directing Away From Conventional Theatre, David Barnett (University of York, UK)
6. Brecht’s Perspectives, Then and Now: Class, Gender and the Social Stakes of Performance, Meg Mumford (UNSW Sydney, Australia)

Notes
Bibliography
Index