The Uncapturable

The Fleeting Art of Theatre

William Gregory (Author), Rubén Szuchmacher

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Methuen Drama
03 September 2020

Theatre: individual actors & directors; Theatre direction & production

Series: Theatre Makers

The Uncapturable is a wide-ranging reflection on the art of the mise en scène from the perspective of leading Argentinian theatre director Rubén Szuchmacher. It offers a timely and concise, though comprehensive, survey of the role and responsibility of the theatre director from the earliest times to the twenty-first century.

Szuchmacher defines theatre as the confluence of four art forms - architecture, visual art, sound and literature - whose works only truly exist in the moment of encounter with an audience. He argues that, by taking full account of these four art forms, analysing them in detail and engaging thoughtfully with the many specialists who come together to bring a mise en scène into being, the director of today can still create work that innovates and inspires.

The Uncapturable is as valuable to the apprentice director emerging from their training as it is to the veteran in need of fresh reflection. Szuchmacher draws on the unique learnings gleaned from working in Argentina, be it the impact on theatre of politics, the need for inventiveness in times of hardship, the phenomenon of Argentine 'circus theatre' or the adaptation of literary giants such as Borges, affording the Anglophone reader an alternative perspective on the ideas of theatre we often take for granted.

Szuchmacher offers a unique blend of global knowledge, historical awareness and a pragmatic, resourceful and creative approach from a theatre artist working in Latin American through decades of change.

The book is translated from the Spanish by William Gregory.

By: Rubén Szuchmacher
Translated by: William Gregory (Author)
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 184g
ISBN: 9781350138841
ISBN 10: 1350138843
Series: Theatre Makers
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 03 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Object and Action (1 & 2) Part One The Arts in the Mise en Scène Architecture The Historical Features of Spaces The Shape of Space The Effective Space Visual Art The Awareness of the Eye The Visual and its Costs The Eye of the Beholder Sound Art How Long Does Something Last? Music Sound versus Noise Acoustic Sound and Amplified Sound Voices Literature Words Language The Hypothesis of Performance Texts to be Read and Texts to be Heard Text Analysis Part Two The Place of the Director Who Directs? The Uncapturable (1 and 2) The Director’s Word Teamwork The Director and their Place as Spectator Danger in the Performing Arts Questions Simultaneity Art or Entertainment Tours and Transfers Actors at the Centre of the System The Arbitrary and the Law Friction Acknowledgements

Rubén Szuchmacher is one of Argentina's leading theatre and opera directors, who has directed in his country's major institutions and toured worldwide. He is also a stage and screen actor and choreographer, has managed theatre buildings and has taught theatre direction in universities in Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay. In 2016, he was awarded a Premio de la Trayectoria (lifetime achievement award) by the Argentine Instituto Nacional de Teatro (National Theatre Institute). William Gregory is a translator whose translations of leading Spanish and Latin American dramatists have been produced by the Royal Court Theatre, Gate Theatre and the BBC. He is a regular translator and script advisor for the international department at the Royal Court Theatre, translation editor for the online theatre journal The Theatre Times and a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London.

Reviews for The Uncapturable: The Fleeting Art of Theatre

For over fifty years actor-director Ruben Szuchmacher has been one of the best kept secrets in Latin American theatre. Here, in his acclaimed first book, he provides a series of shrewd reflections on theatre and the ways in which its mysteries come into being in the presence of the audience. The poetics of space, the logic of time and the relationship between mise en scene and direction are all explored with clarity and vigour. The Uncapturable is an erudite, lively and highly readable book about the hows and the whys of theatre-making, drawing on Szuchmacher's lived experience of training generations of actors, directors, teachers and programmers in Argentina. * Professor Maria Delgado, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama *