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Introduction -- 1. Traditional Staging And The Evolution Of The Director. Classical Greek theatre; director as choreographer: -- From Greece to classical Rome -- Medieval European staging -- Playwright-managers: Renaissance and early seventeenth-century theatre -- Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: enlightenment and the actor-manager: -- Introducing scenery: Philip Jacques de Loutherbourg -- Henry Irving: nineteenth-century actor-manager -- Transition from traditional staging -- German stage and the function of the Intendant: -- Critic as director: Gotthold Lessing at the Hamburg Nationaltheater -- 2. The Rise Of The Modern Director. Meiningen players and the conditions for naturalism: -- Meiningen influence -- Theory of naturalism: Emile Zola -- Naturalistic director: Andre Antoine and the Theatre Libre -- Symbolist theatre: a call for directorial vision -- Richard Wagner: total theatre -- Adolphe Appia: lighting and space -- Gordon Craig, Adolphe Appia and the theory of directing -- Stanislavsky and psychological realism: -- Seagull -- Acting 'with the body' -- 3. Directors Of Theatricality. Vsevolod Meyerhold: commedia dell'arte to biomechanics: -- Theatricality, stylization and the grotesque -- Director as engineer: constructivism and biomechanics -- Aleksandr Tairov: aestheticized theatricalization -- Yevgeny Vakhtangov: festivity and spectacle -- Revisiting Meyerhold: Valery Fokin -- Politics of theatricality: Ariane Mnouchkine: -- Masters -- Theatricality, metaphor and the 'East' -- Directing in a collectivity of equals -- Frank Castorf and Thomas Ostermeier: theatricality and violence -- Eastern European directors: theatricality as resistance -- 4. Epic Theatre Directors. Erwin Piscator's political theatre: -- Political staging: Piscator's Rasputin -- Film and stage -- Political directing: Piscator approach -- Rasputin production: model for epic theatre -- Documentary theatre -- Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre: -- Epic theatre and cabaret -- Developing an epic style of staging and directing -- Directing epic theatre: Mother Courage -- Influence of epic theatre: -- Heiner Muller and post-Brechtian epic theatre -- Postmodern epic directing: Roberto Ciulli -- 5. Total Theatre : Director As Auteur. Gordon Craig and the artist of the theatre -- Max Reinhardt: Director's Book -- Combining directorial methods: Norman Bel Geddes -- Peter Brook: collective creation versus directorial vision -- Robert Wilson: Visual Book -- Robert Lepage: cinematic self-directing -- Total theatre and directing opera: Robert Wilson, Robert Lepage, Peter Sellars: -- Visual stylization as musical context: Robert Wilson -- Cinematic and mechanistic deconstructions of opera: Robert Lepage -- Conceptual politics: Peter Sellars -- Sound and space: Christoph Marthaler -- 6. Directors Of Ensemble Theatre. Giorgio Strehler, Peter Stein, Peter Brook: -- Three versions of The Cherry Orchard -- Lev Dodin and Anatoli Vassiliev: continuing Stanislavsky's principles: -- Dodin-director-pedagogue -- Vassiliev's laboratory -- Katie Mitchell and Declan Donnellan: adapting Russian ideals of ensemble -- 7. Directors, Collaboration And Improvisation. Theory and politics of improvisation -- Physical theatre: Simon McBurney -- Wooster Group: media(ted) improvisations -- Paradox of improvisation: Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba: -- Grotowski paradigm -- Eugenio Barba: improvisation and dramaturgies -- Wlodzimierz Staniewski (Gardzienice); Anna Zubrzycki and Grzegorz Bral (song of the goat) -- Musicality -- Jaroslaw fret (Teatr ZAR): choral collaboration.