Fowler | Katie Mitchell | Buch | 978-1-138-08236-6 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1540 g

Fowler

Katie Mitchell

Beautiful Illogical Acts
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-08236-6
Verlag: Routledge

Beautiful Illogical Acts

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1540 g

ISBN: 978-1-138-08236-6
Verlag: Routledge


Katie Mitchell: Beautiful Illogical Acts offers the first comprehensive study of Britain’s most internationally recognised, influential, and controversial theatre director. It examines Mitchell’s innovations in fourth-wall realism, opera, and Live Cinema across major British and European institutions, bringing three decades of practice vividly to life.

Informed by first-hand rehearsal observations and in-depth conversations with the director and her collaborators, Fowler investigates the intense and immersive qualities of Mitchell’s distinctive theatrical realism and challenges mainstream narratives about realism as a defunct or inherently conservative genre. He explores Mitchell’s theatre—and its often polarised reception—to question familiar assumptions governing contemporary performance criticism, including common binaries that pit realism against radical experimentation, auteurs against texts, feminists against Naturalism, and Britain against Europe. By examining a career trajectory that intersects with huge cultural change, Fowler places Mitchell at the centre of urgent contemporary debates about cultural transformation and its genuinely inclusive potential.

This is an essential book for those interested in Katie Mitchell, British theatre, directing, the transformative power of realism and feminism in contemporary theatre practice, and challenges to hierarchical distributions of power inside the mainstream.

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PART I Staging classics in the British mainstream (1989-2011); Foundations I; 1 Out of place: Mitchell and early modern drama; 2 Flesh and blood: Mitchell, Chekhov, and immersive realism; 3 Come and see: Mitchell, Euripides, and ethical witnessing; PART II The pivot to Live Cinema (2006-2008); Foundations II; 4 Moments of being: Live Cinema and the novel; PART III Adventures in Europe and avowing feminism (2008-2018); Foundations III; 5 Watch me vanish: Mitchell’s alternative feminist (German) canon; 6 Birch and Crimp: Mitchell’s collaborations with living writers; Conclusion; Appendix: Mitchell’s production chronology


Benjamin Fowler is a lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance at the University of Sussex, UK.



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