As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on
international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs
their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the
Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind
unhelpful clichés that pit, above all, the director against the
playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between
Continental theatre and Continental philosophy.
The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf, Ivo van
Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the works of
Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative dialectics,
and the critical philosophy of Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Zizek in
order to explore the thinking of Regie - how to think Regie, and how
Regie thinks.