The Art of Stillness: The Theater Practice of Tadashi Suzuki

The Art of Stillness: The Theater Practice of Tadashi Suzuki
ISBN-10
1466889160
ISBN-13
9781466889163
Series
The Art of Stillness
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2015-01-06
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Author
Paul Allain

Description

For over forty years, Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theater, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions including his famous production of The Trojan Women, which subsequently toured around the world. An intergral part of his work has been the development and teaching of his rigorous and controversial training system, the Suzuki method, whose principles have also been highly influential in contemporary theater. Paul Allain, an experienced practitioner of the Suzuki method, re-evaluates Suzuki's work, giving a lucid overview of his development towards an international theater aesthetic. He examines Suzuki's collaborators, the importance of architecture and environment in his theater and his impact on performance all over the world. The Art of Stillness is a lively, critical study of one of the most important and uncompromising figures in contemporary world theater.

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