Federico García Lorca´s The Public, Levinas´s Philosophy and the Questions of the Other by Justo Planas

“…This paper will discuss the problematization of the Otherness in The Public (El Público), by the Spanish poet, playwright and theatre director Federico García Lorca and Totality and Infinity. …”
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Fragments of Thought About the Tragic Fragments: Theodoros Terzopoulos’ Views on Fragmentary Greek Tragedy by Menelaos Karantzas

“…In 2003, Theodoros Terzopoulos, the internationally acclaimed Greek theatre director, staged a performance which was based on fragments of ancient Greek dramas written by Aeschylus; the play he created was called Epigonoi. …”
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Erwin Piscator's Russia's Day: Agitprop between History and Myth by Monika Bregović

“…The work of Erwin Piscator as a theatre director is marked by attempts to introduce communist ideology into theatre, which was reflected in various aspects of his theatrical practice. …”
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Os Pássaros by Carolina Bianchi

“… This is a text by the Brazilian theatre director, dramaturg and performer, Carolina Bianchi. …”
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The Staging of a Point of View and Testimony of the Bodies in Vivi Tellas’s Documentary Theatre by Pamela Brownell (Universidad de Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires, Argentina)

“… In this article we review some theoretical approaches to the artistic proposal of Argentine theatre director Vivi Tellas, focusing on her documentary theatre project Archivos, an expression of her wider project Biodrama. …”
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Grzegorz Wiśniewski’s Production of Richard III in Teatr Jaracza in Łódź—Textual Authority, the “Director's Cut”, and Theatre Status by Magdalena Cieślak

“…Wiśniewski, a renown Polish theatre director and professor at the National Film School in Łódź, has his own way of understanding theatre, its role in culture, and Shakespeare’s place in it. …”
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Theatre translation by Živa Čebulj

“…The play, directed by the Finnish theatre director Jari Juutinen, was performed at the Slovene theatre Slovensko ljudsko gledališče Celje by the Slovene actress Maša Grošelj. …”
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As the Story Goes … by Brook, Peter

“…Through the following story renowned theatre director Peter Brook reminds us that what happens on the theatre stage has to be of interest to everyone in the audience, and he leaves us with the question: How can this be achieved? …”
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The Promise of Cultural Diplomacy by Hedda Krausz Sjögren, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl

“…Co-authored by Krausz Sjögren and one of her collaborators during this period, a theatre director and researcher, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, it also attempts to reflect the shared experience of collaborative work in this sphere. …”
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Commedia dell’Arte Masks in Giorgio Strehler’s Performances by Baldina Yuliya А.

“…The article aims to retrace the theatrical interpretation of Carlo Goldoni’s (1707–1793) works carried out by the founder of the Piccolo Theatre in Milan, the outstanding Italian theatre director Giorgio Strehler (1921–1997). The phenomenon of commedia dell’arte is analysed not in the historical and theatrical context of its origin and existence but as a dramatic basis for the reform undertaken by the 18th century Venetian playwright, which was comprehended and presented from various perspectives in the 20th century director’s theatre. …”
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Invisible Theatre: militarized space and the staging of affective atmospheres by Leah Lovett

“…This paper revisits the circumstances surrounding Brazilian theatre director, Augusto Boal’s first recorded experiment with Invisible Theatre in a restaurant in Buenos Aires (1972) in light of Anderson’s (2014) theory of affective atmospheres in their capacity to mediate structures of feeling. …”
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Cultural individualism in modern Singapore. by Han, Esther Yun Yan.

“…Kuo Pao Kun, a highly looked upon and influential Singaporean playwright, theatre director and arts activist, whose works often deal with issues pertaining to identity and one’s state of being in relation to the society, serves as good reference in searching for answers to these questions. …”
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Kontynuacje i migawki: Wspomnienia o Lechu Raczaku (1946-2020) by Jana Pilátová, Pavel Štourač, Biljana Golubovič, Martin Frys

“…Lech Raczak (1946–2020) is remembered by Jana Pilátová, professor at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), and his students. A well-known theatre director, theatre scholar, playwright, and lecturer, for them Raczak was primarily a teacher and a friend. …”
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Directing Dramas is Returning Hometown: Reading Lin Zhaohua’s The Cherry Orchard from the Perspective of the Taoist Freedom, Xiaoyao by Chengyun Zhao

“…Born in 1936 and starting to produce little theatre praxes in 1982, Lin Zhaohua is the first Chinese theatre director who could be considered the predecessor of most other Chinese directors after the proclamation of the 1978 Reform and Opening-Up policy. …”
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Genealogy of Political Theatre in Post-Socialism. From the Anti-“System” Nihilism to the Anti-Capitalist Left by Schwartz David

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The Era of Tadeusz Pawlikowski and Irish Theatre by Barry Keane

“…Tadeusz Pawlikowski was arguably Poland’s greatest theatre director of the fin de siècle. With stints as Theatre Manager in both Kraków and Lwów municipal theatres, Pawlikowski excelled in developing ensemble casts and cultivating audiences without kowtowing to popular tastes. …”
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Becoming a Gordon Craig: Micheál mac Liammóir and Edward Gordon Craig’s Shared Beliefs and Performances of Self by Chris Moran

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Reclaiming the Silenced History of LGBTIQA+ Activism and the HIV/AIDS Crisis through Irish Theatre. An Interview with Phillip McMahon by J. Javier Torres-Fernández

“…The playwright and theatre director Phillip McMahon is also co-founder and co-director of THISISPOPBABY, a Dublin arts company founded in 2007 and said to have redefined modern Irish theatre, ripping up the space between popular culture, counterculture and high art. …”
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新加坡华语小剧场 ：以电力站（1990－2002年）为例 = Chinese language little theatre in Singapore : a case study of the Substation (1990-2002) by 张文豪 Teo, Eng Hao

“…Founded by local theatre director, playwright Kuo Pao Kun in 1990, The Substation owned the first Black Box Theater in Singapore, and organised the “Raw Theatre season”, which propelled the growth of local Little Theatre (a mandarin term coined to describe small-scaled productions, usually with experimental or avant-garde nature), and even the whole development of local theatre. …”
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Prelude at the Theatre by FAUST by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from:

“…A conversation between a theatre director, a writer (and a “merry person“) revolves around a fundamental question: to what extent should the audience’s desire for entertainment be the deciding factor when staging plays? …”
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