Federico Garcia Lorca

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-03-221997-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: Routledge Performance Practitioners

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the 20th Century, Federico Garcia Lorca was also an accomplished theatre director with a clear process and philosophy of how drama should be staged. Directing both his own work and that of others, Lorca was also closely involved in the rehearsals for productions of many of his plays, and from his own writings and those of his collaborators, a determined agenda to stimulate audiences and renovate theatre can be seen.

This is the first book in English to fully consider Lorca as a director and his rehearsal methodology. The book combines:

-          A biographical account of Lorca’s work as a director and rehearsal leader, revealing his techniques and methods of approach texts;

-          An exploration of his key writings on and around theatre, drawing on his talks, play introductions and some of the dramatic works themselves;

-          The first translation into English of his fragment Dragon;

-          A detailed discussion of Lorca’s key productions, Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna (1933) for La Barraca, and his own Yerma (1934).

-          Specific focus on the practical applications that we can draw from Lorca’s methods, both from what survives of his own work and from the accounts of his close collaborators.

 

As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.

Zielgruppe

General and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breden, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

A note on translations

 

1. Lorca’s life in the theatre      

Formative experiences 

La Barraca      

Anfistora         

Mainstream success     

 

2. Key writings and ideas         

A Talk About Theatre   

The modern director    

Lorca’s ideas on theatre

Social commitment and theatre 

Rhythm & harmony

Imagination & inspiration        

Multidisciplinarity       

Prologues, Dragón       

El público, Comedia sin título  

 

3. Key productions      

Fuente Ovejuna

Lorca and the Spanish Golden Age       

Rehearsing Fuente Ovejuna

Casting

Co-directing: Ugarte & Maortua de Ucelay       

Rehearsals and actor training    

Working on verse        

Yerma 

Co-directing: Rivas Cherif       

Acting work    

 

4. Practical Exercises: Lorca and Rivas Cherif   

Observations of Lorca’s rehearsals       

Casting

The rehearsal period    

Verse work     

Breathing        

Verse form      

Punctuation and thought

Annotating the text      

Improvisation  

Character work

Conclusion      

 

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Breden is currently Doctor Encargado at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain. His published work focuses on rehearsal practice, contemporary and Golden Age Spanish theatre, and issues of translating for the stage. He is also a published translator and former stage director.