Directing scenes and senses The thinking of Regie [Paperback]

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 clich?s 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 Ranci?re and Slavoj }i~ek in order to explore the thinking of Regie how to think Regie, and how Regie thinks.
Preface. The dissensus of Regie: Re-thinking directors' theatre I. Mise en sc?ne to mise en sens: Towards an aesthetic politics of Regie

1. Regie beyond representation: Directing the 'sensible'

2. The restless spirit of Regie: Hegel, theatrality, and the magic of speculative thinking

3. Theatre as dialectic institution: Friedrich Schiller and the liberty of play

4. The essence of the text and its actualisation: Leopold Jessner, the playwright's radical servant

II. The theatral appearing of ideas: Regie in contemporary European theatre

5. The tremor of speculative negation: On Regie, truth, and ex-position

6. Seeing what is coming: On Regie, playing, and appearing

7. The intermedial parallax: On Regie, media, and spectating

8. Theatre in the age of semiocapitalism: On Regie, realism, and political critique

Afterthought: The future of Regie?

Bibliography

Index

Peter M. Boenischis Co-Director of the European Theatre Research Network (ETRN) and a Fellow of the International Research Centre 'Interweaving Performance Cultures'