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An invaluable book that we shall all be using for a long time to come - Michael BillingtonContemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years. It is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during this period; situated lucidly in its artistic; cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.The featured directors are:Calixto Bieito; Piotr Borowski; Romeo Castellucci; Frank Castorf; Patrice Cheacute;reau; Lev Dodin; Declan Donnellan; Kristian Freacute;dric; Rodrigo Garciacute;a; Jan Lauwers; Christoph Marthaler; Simon McBurney; Daniel Mesguich; Katie Mitchell; Ariane Mnouchkine; Thomas Ostermeier; Patrice Pavis; Silviu Purc?rete and Peter Sellars.Travelling from London and Craiova to St. Petersburg and Madrid; the book examines directors working with classics; new writing; and new collaborative theatre forms. Each chapter is written by a specialist in European theatre and provides a detail critique of production styles. The directors themselves provide contributions and interviews to this multi-authored work; which unites the many and varied voices of European theatre in one coherent volume.