Prof. Peter Boenisch’s new book ‘Directing Scenes and Senses: The Thinking of Regie’ is now available for pre-order.
As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on
international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs
their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie,
the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving
behind unhelpful clichés that pit, above all, the director against the
playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between
Continental theatre and Continental philosophy.
The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf,
Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the
works of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative
dialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Rancière and Slavoj
Žižek in order to explore the thinking of Regie – how to think Regie,
and how Regie thinks. This partial and ‘sideways look’ invites a wider
reconsideration of the potential of ‘playing’ theatre today, of its
aesthetic possibilities, and its political stakes in the global neoliberal
economy of the twenty-first century.
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