Directors & Designers

Christine White is head of narrative and interactive arts in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University.

• PART I: SETTING THE SCENE Chapter 1: Back and Forth to Russia: Scenography as an Academic Study from Moscow 1994–St Petersburg 2004 – Christine WhitePART II: PERFORMING PARTNERSChapter 2: Hand in Glove: The Designer as Director as Designer – Charles ErvenChapter 3: Political Performing Partners: Director Lee Strasberg, Scene Designer Mordecai Gorelik, Playwright John Howard Lawson and the Group Theatre – Anne FletcherChapter 4: The Director, the Designer and the Ghost/Creative Team in Site-Specific Performance Practice – Kathleen IrwinChapter 5: Director Petr Lébl and Designer William Nowák: To a Man – Vera VelemanováChapter 6: The Organics of the Rehearsal Room: Contemporary Directing Practice and the Director–Designer Relationship – Alison OddeyChapter 7: Collaborative Models: Mielziner, Williams and Kazan – Julia ListengartenChapter 8: Problematics of Theatrical Negotiations: Directing, Scenography and State Ideology – Julia ListengartenChapter 9: Methodological Practices for Directing and Designing – Christine WhiteChapter 10: The Digital Platform as a Communication Tool – Adele KeeleyPART III: METAPHORS, METATHEATRE & METHODOLOGIESChapter 11: The Seductive Scene or Reclaiming Spectacle – Christine WhiteChapter 12: Metatheatre: A Discourse on Contemporary Staging – Ewa WaçhockaChapter 13: A Metaphorical Mise-en-Scène: Elia Kazan and Max Gorelik at The Group Theatre – Scott DahlChapter 14: Ideational Conflict and Resolution in the Design Process: Positive Outcomes from Negative Relationships – Harry FeinerChapter 15: Design as Action: Jean Cocteau and the Ballets Russes – Gregory SportonPART IV: POSTSCRIPT TO THE DIRECTORChapter 16: From Hamlet with Love: A Letter to the Other – Lilja Blumenfeld