Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the life and work of individuals who have been deeply influential to the development of theatre. Its specialist authors combine theory and practice to provide insightful overviews of the individual directors' approaches. Alphabetical list of contents ix Notes on contributors xi Introduction xvii André Antoine (1858-1943) 3(4) Jean Chothia Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943) 7(4) Arkady Ostrovsky Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) 11(5) Shomit Mitter Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) 16(5) Shomit Mitter Max Reinhardt (1873-1940) 21(5) Shomit Mitter Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940) 26(6) Shomit Mitter Jacques Copeau (1879-1949) 32(5) John Rudlin Alexander Tairov (1885-1950) 37(4) Dasha Krijanskaia Erwin Piscator (1893-1966) 41(6) Shomit Mitter Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) 47(5) Shomit Mitter Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) 52(4) Shomit Mitter Lee Strasberg (1901-82) 56(6) Shomit Mitter Jean Vilar (1912-71) 62(6) Maria Shevtsova Tadeusz Kantor (1915-90) 68(7) Michal Kobialka Joan Littlewood (1914-2002) 75(6) Nadine Holdsworth Yury Lyubimov (1917-) 81(5) Birgit Beumers Giorgio Strehler (1921-97) 86(6) Maria Shevtsova Julian Beck (1925-85) 92(5) Shomit Mitter Peter Brook (1925-) 97(5) Shomit Mitter Augusto Boal (1931-) 102(5) Shornit Mitter Jerzy Grotowski (1933-99) 107(6) Shomit Mitter Luca Ronconi (1933-) 113(4) Maria Shevtsova Peter Schumann (1934-) 117(6) Shomit Mitter Joseph Chaikin (1935-2003) 123(5) Shomit Mitter Eugenio Barba (1936-) 128(6) Shomit Mitter Yukio Ninagawa (1936-) 134(4) Kazuko Matsuoka Lee Breuer (1937-) 138(5) Gerald Rabkin Richard Foreman (1937-) 143(5) Gerald Rabkin Peter Stein (1937-) 148(6) Shomit Mitter JoAnne Akalaitis (1939-) 154(6) Deborah Saivetz Ariane Mnouchkine (1939-) 160(7) Maria Shevtsova Tadashi Suzuki (1939-) 167(6) Ian Carruthers Pina Bausch (1940-) 173(5) Maria Shevtsova Rex Cramphorn (1941-91) 178(7) Ian Maxwell Robert Wilson (1941-) 185(5) Shomit Mitter Anatoly Vasilyev (1942-) 190(5) Birgit Beumers Patrice Chéreau (1944-) 195(5) Maria Shevtsova Lev Dodin (1944-) 200(6) Maria Shevtsova Elizabeth LeCompte (1944-) 206(6) Aoife Monks Jim Sharman (1945-) 212(5) Ian Maxwell Anne Bogart (1951-) 217(5) Scott T. Cummings Lluis Pasqual (1951-) 222(5) Maria M. Delgado Eimuntas Nekrosius (1952-) 227(4) Birgit Beumers Declan Donnellan (1953-) 231(5) Maria Shevtsova Neil Armfield (1955-) 236(6) Ian Maxwell Robert Lepage (1957-) 242(5) Shomit Mitter Simon McBurney (1957-) 247(5) David Williams Peter Sellars (1958-) 252(5) Maria Shevtsova Deborah Warner (1959-) 257(5) Aoife Monks Calixto Bieito (1963-) 262(5) Maria M. Delgado Index 267