Contemporary European Theatre Directors

This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past thirty years.

This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during the last three decades, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural, and political context. Each chapter discusses a particular director, showing the influences on their work, how it has developed over time, its reception, and the complex relation it has with its social and cultural context. The volume includes directors living and working in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Romania, the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, offering an all-encompassing, global approach across the directing field.

Now revised and updated, Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ideal text for both undergraduate and postgraduate directing students, as well as those researching contemporary theatre practices, providing a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe since the end of the Cold War.

Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published widely on post-war British theatre and his books include 1956 and All That (1999) and Theatre and Globalization (2009). He is also a playwright whose works have been performed on stage and radio in Britain, Europe and the USA.

Maria M. Delgado is Professor of Theatre and Screen Arts at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She has published widely in the area of Spanish-language theatre and film. Her books include ’Other’ Spanish Theatres (2003, revised Spanish-language edition, 2017), Federico García Lorca (2008) and ten co-edited volumes.