Ariane Mnouchkine

• Main Author: Miller, Judith Graves (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York Routledge 2007
• Series: Routledge performance practitioners
• Subjects: Mnouchkine- Ariane > 1938- > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Theatre du Soleil; Θέατρο > Παραγωγή και σκηνοθεσία

Table of Contents:

• 1. Intellectual and artistic biography : nomad of the imagination
• Beginnings
• Mnouchkine and her times
• Theatrical influences and affinities
• 2. Ideas on theater : theater as collective history and the quest for form
• Theoretical propositions
• The creative process
• Paradoxes and tensions
• 3. Four key productions : Mnouchkine's "fanatically theatrical"
• 1789 : collective creation, audience involvement, and comedic form
• Richard II : mythic storytelling, hybridizing Asia, and geometrizing power
• L'lndiade on L'inde de leurs reves : the Cixousian partnership, aesthetics of the hyper-real, and border crossers
• Drums on the dam : in the form of an ancient puppet play, performed by actors : theatrical self-questioning and the actor as puppet
• 4. Practical exercises
• Principles of theatrical creation
• Mask work
• A basic rehearsal vocabulary.