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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480202803321

Autore

Boenisch Peter M.

Titolo

Directing scenes and senses : The thinking of Regie / / Peter M. Boenisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-78499-172-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Theatre theory, practice, performance

Disciplina

792.02/33094

Soggetti

Theater - Production and direction

Theater - Production and direction - Europe - History

History

Electronic books.

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction, the dissensus of Regie : rethinking 'directors' theatre' -- Part I, Mise en scene to Mise en sens : towards an aesthetic politics of Regie. Regie beyond representation : directing the 'sensible' ; The restless spirit of Regie : Hegel, theatrality and the magic of speculative thinking ; Theatre as dialectic institution : Friedrich Schiller and the liberty of play ; The essence of the text and its actualisation : Leopold Jessner, the playwright's radical servant -- Part II, The theatral appearing of ideas : the thinking of contemporary Regie. The tremor of speculative negation : on Regie, truth and ex-position ; Seeing what is coming : on Regie, playing and appearing ; The intermedial parallax : on Regie, media and spectating ; Theatre in the age of semiocapitalism : on Regie, realism and political critique -- Conclusion : the future of Regie?

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the thinking of Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts, as a meeting between Continental theater and philosophy. Develops new perspectives on the cultural history of Regie through historical and contemporary manifestations in German, Dutch, and Flemish theater.