This volume focuses on three artists who embrace media and technology as essential elements of their theatrical expression: Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, and Robert Lepage.
Diverse in their aesthetic interests, they nevertheless share an approach to directing that includes technological media on stage as central to a rigorously crafted production concept. Technological elements live alongside and negotiate with the theatre’s human players, disclosing, shaping, and even intruding on the dramas they enact. The essays in this volume explore how all three directors have provided decisive responses to a question that has dogged the theatre for at least the last century: what relationship can theatre, an art form grounded in live, ephemeral, expression, have to technology?
The Great North American Stage Directors series provides an authoritative account of the art of directing in North America by examining the work of twenty-four major practitioners from the late 19th century to the present. Each of the eight volumes examines three directors and offers an overview of their practices, theoretical ideas, and contributions to modern theatre. The studies chart the life and work of each director, placing his or her achievement in the context of other important theatre practitioners and broader social history. Written by a team of leading experts, the series presents the genealogy of directing in North America while simultaneously chronicling crucial trends and championing contemporary interpretation.
Edited by:
Professor James Peck
Series edited by:
Professor James Peck
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781350526129
ISBN 10: 1350526126
Series: Great Stage Directors
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 23 January 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures Series Introduction, James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA) Introduction, Claudia Orenstein (CUNY, USA) Elizabeth LeCompte 1. The Forty Year Rehearsal: The Wooster Group’s Endless Work in Progress, David Gordon (Author, USA) 2. Tele-Performatively Yours: Deformation, Distraction, and Meaning-Making in Three Recorded Works of Elizabeth LeCompte and The Wooster Group, Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College, USA) Ping Chong 3. Ping Chong: An Artist, Storyteller, and Activist, Yuko Kurahashi (Kent State University, USA) 4. Animated Objects in the Work of Ping Chong, Claudia Orenstein (CUNY, USA) Robert Lepage 5. The Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Theatre of Robert Lepage, Aleksandar S. Dundjerovic (Birmingham City University, UK) 6. Intermediality in the Theatre of Robert Lepage, Christopher B. Balme (LMU Munich, Germany) Notes on Contributors Index
Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. James Peck is Professor of Theatre at Muhlenberg College, USA.
