Ivo van Hove
From Shakespeare to David Bowie
Ivo van Hove
From Shakespeare to David Bowie
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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.
Table of Contents
Colour Plates
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: “My Life in Theatre”- Ivo van Hove
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Susan Bennett and Sonia Massai
Interview with Ivo van Hove;
Interview with Jan Versweyveld;
Halina Reijn with Ruth Wilson, in conversation
SECTION ONE: Directing the Classics
Canonical Iconoclasm - Sonia Massai
Hedda Meets a Big Gun - Mark Lawson
Playing Female Roles in the Classics: A Conversation - Halina Reijn and Ruth Wilson
Hedda Gabler: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove
Ivo van Hove Staging Shakespeare: World Enough and Time? - Kate Bassett
The Taming of the Shrew: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove
Staging Ivo van Hove at BAM - Joseph V. Melillo
Staging Ivo van Hove at the Barbican: An Interview with Toni Racklin - Sonia Massai
Roman Tragedies: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove
Staging Ivo van Hove at the Schaubühne, Berlin: An Interview with Maja Zade - Sonia Massai
Edward II: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove
The Misanthrope: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove
Staging Shakespeare at Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Political Murders and Backroom Politics - Laurens de Vos
Two Rival Queens Caught in a Museum: Mary Stuart - Laurens de Vos
Ivo van Hove's Antigone: A Contemporary Update - George Rodosthenous
Antigone: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove
SECTION TWO: The Festival Performances of Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam
'Everywhere we traveled we became the centre of the festival': Interviews with Ivo van Hove and Wouter van Ransbeek - Keren Zaiontz
SECTION THREE: American Theatre
Ivo van Hove and the Art of Humanity - Joshua E. Polster
The Little Foxes: A Modern Morality Tale about Restriction and Greed - Susan C.W. Abbottson
Angels in America, the Bare Dutch Version - Emile Schra
A View from Salem: Ivo van Hove's The Crucible - Joshua E. Polster
SECTION FOUR: Opera across Europe
Ivo van Hove and Opera: A Critical Overview - Francois Jongen
More than Wall Street in Macbeth -Frédéric Maurin
La Clemenza di Tito and the Crisis of Democracy - Marcin Bogucki
Cruelly Beautiful: Ivo van Hove's Mazeppa - Johanna Wall
Brokeback Mountain: 'Why Can't I Say What I Want to Say' - José-Máximo Leza
Fantasy and Reality in Salome - Frédéric Maurin
SECTION FIVE: Creation, Adaptation, Direction
Directing Across Genre: Film, Fiction, Music, Theatre - Susan Bennett
Synedoche, Adaptation, and the Staged Screenplay: Van Hove's Obsession(s) - Julie Sanders
Archaeological Adventures in Spectating: Obsession and Scenes from a Marriage - P.A. Skantze
The Intensification of the Novel: Ayn Rand's and Ivo van Hove's The Fountainhead - Denis Flannery
Building Blocks: Ivo van Hove and the Barbican Box Project - Rachael Nicholas
A Tale of Two Cities: Lazarus in New York and London by Susan Bennett
Selected Further Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 12 Jul 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781350031531 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Illustrations | 16 colour and 30 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 244 x 169 mm |
| Series | Performance Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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