The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6: Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon

This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators – Stanislavski, the modernist avant—garde and not least Brecht – and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politically—engaged 'directors' theatre'. It argues that, in creating their major productions in the prosperous 'glorious decades' that followed the devastation of the Second World War, they represent...