Prof. Peter Boenisch’s new book ‘Directing Scenes and Senses: The Thinking of Regie’ is now available for pre-order.<\/p>\n
As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on
\ninternational stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs
\ntheir impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie,
\nthe Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving
\nbehind unhelpful clich\u00e9s that pit, above all, the director against the
\nplaywright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between
\nContinental theatre and Continental philosophy.
\nThe contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf,
\nIvo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the
\nworks of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative
\ndialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Ranci\u00e8re and Slavoj
\n\u017di\u017eek in order to explore the thinking of Regie \u2013 how to think Regie,
\nand how Regie thinks. This partial and \u2018sideways look\u2019 invites a wider
\nreconsideration of the potential of \u2018playing\u2019 theatre today, of its
\naesthetic possibilities, and its political stakes in the global neoliberal
\neconomy of the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n
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