The Great European Stage Directors Volume 8 : Bausch, Castellucci, Fabre

This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre
as three leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on postwar
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 signifi cance 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 redefi ne their own position and role throughout
the latter half of the 20th century.