20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe

Kalina Stefanova, a Full Professor at the NATFA, Bulgaria, is author/editor of 14 books on theatre and two fiction titles. She has lectured world-wide and is a Visiting Distinguished Professor of the Arts School, Wuhan University, China. She has served as Vice President and Director Symposia of the International Association of Theatre Critics. Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA, is the author of 25 books and hundreds of essays on theatre and performance. He has received many major national and international awards and an honorary professorship from the University of Athens, Greece.

“20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe … delivers exactly what it promises in its title … . the volume is undoubtedly a unique and thorough undertaking, especially when considering the small number of works that attempt to provide an encyclopaedic overview of contemporary world theatre. … an important and timely volume that helps to identify and recognise the directorial signatures that have shaped and continue to shape the theatre culture of the Eastern European region in recent decades.” (TamásJászay, Theatron, Vol. 16 (4), 2022)

• 1. Grzegorz Bral: Cosmopolitan Experiments in Theatre.- 2. My Name Is Gianina Cărbunariu: I’m a Lioness.- 3. Oliver Frljić or the Theatre of Provocation.- 4. Alvis Hermanis: “To Be Everything and Nothing at All”.- 5. Grzegorz Jarzyna’s Theatre of Post-Dramatic Joy and Recognition.- 6. Jan Klata: The Social-Identity DJ of the Polish Theatre.- 7. “What Is Hecuba to Him or He to Hecuba?” or the Theatre of Oskaras Koršunovas.- 8. Jernej Lorenci: “People Are the Key”.- 9. Krystian Lupa: The Maestro They Criticise Love.- 10. Dark Visions of Jan Mikulášek.- 11. Alexander Morfov, the Game-Changer and His Collective Theatre.- 12. Eimuntas Nekrošius: The Poetics of Paradise and Hell.- 13. Béla Pintér and His Postmodern National Theatre.- 14. Silviu Purcărete: The Master of Rich Theatre.- 15. From the Theatron to the Agora: Changing Concepts of Theatricality in Schilling Árpád’s Oeuvre.- 16. Andrei Șerban: The Search for ‘New Forms’.- 17. Beauty by Instinct or Daniel Špinar’s Theatre of Style.- 18. Włodzimierz Staniewski: (Re-)Constructing Traditions and Archetypes.- 19. Rimas Tuminas: A Poetic View of Theatre.- 20. Krzysztof Warlikowski: A Beautiful Shock Therapy.- 21. An Attempt at Drawing an Artistic Family Tree.- 22. The Stakes Today.