This book offers a wealth of resources, critical overviews and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove's internationally acclaimed work as the foremost director of theatre, opera and musicals in our time. Stunning production photos capture the power of van Hove's directorial vision, his innovative use of theatrical spaces, and the arresting stage images that have made his productions so popular among audiences worldwide over the last 30 years. Van Hove's own contribution to the book, which includes a foreword, interview and his director's notes for some of his most popular shows, makes this book a unique resource for students, scholars and for his fans across the different art forms in which he works. An informative introduction provides an overview of van Hove's unique approach to directing, while five sections, individually curated by experts in the respective fields of Shakespeare, classical theatre, modern theatre, opera, musicals, film, and international festival curatorship, offer readers a combination of critical insight and short excerpts by van Hove's collaborators, the actors in the ensemble companies van Hove works with in Amsterdam and New York, and by arts critics and reviewers.
This book offers a wealth of resources, critical overviews and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove's internationally acclaimed work as the foremost director of theatre, opera and musicals in our time. Stunning production photos capture the power of van Hove's directorial vision, his innovative use of theatrical spaces, and the arresting stage images that have made his productions so popular among audiences worldwide over the last 30 years. Van Hove's own contribution to the book, which includes a foreword, interview and his director's notes for some of his most popular shows, makes this book a unique resource for students, scholars and for his fans across the different art forms in which he works. An informative introduction provides an overview of van Hove's unique approach to directing, while five sections, individually curated by experts in the respective fields of Shakespeare, classical theatre, modern theatre, opera, musicals, film, and international festival curatorship, offer readers a combination of critical insight and short excerpts by van Hove's collaborators, the actors in the ensemble companies van Hove works with in Amsterdam and New York, and by arts critics and reviewers.
List of Illustrations
Colour Plates
Notes on Contributors
Foreword, "My Life in Theatre" by Ivo van Hove
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section One: Directing the Classics
Section Two: The Festival Performances of Ivo van Hove and
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Section Three: American Theatre
Section Four: Opera across Europe
Section Five: Creation, Adaptation, Direction
Selected Further Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index
The first full survey of Ivo van Hove’s internationally acclaimed work to date, ranging across different art forms and practices - from theatre to opera, from musicals to film, from ensemble theatre directing to international collaborations and festival curatorship.
Susan Bennett is University Professor in the Department
of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her books include
Theatre Audiences (1997), Performing Nostalgia (1996) and Theatre &
Museums (2013). Recent edited collections are Shakespeare Beyond
English (co-edited with Christie Carson, 2013) and Performing
Environments: Site-Specificity in Medieval & Early Modern Drama
(co-edited with Mary Polito, 2014). She is series editor, with Kim
Solga, for Theory for Theatre Studies (Bloomsbury Methuen
Drama).
Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the
English Department at King's College London, UK. Her publications
include her book, Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007),
and World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and
Performance (2005), and critical editions of The Paratexts in
English Printed Drama to 1642 ( 2014) and John Ford's Tis Pity
She's a Whore for Arden Early Modern Drama (2011).
Fascinating insights into the breadth, diversity, evolution, and
significance of van Hove’s work.
*Shakespeare Quarterly*
The subtitle of Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie
suggests how widely [van Hove] has ranged to create theatre
synthesizing realism and stylization to stimulate audiences into
seeing classics of every kind with fresh eyes. And that subtitle
doesn’t entirely capture the full range on display in this
informative new collection assembled by theatre scholars Susan
Bennett and Sonia Massai.
*American Theatre*
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