Böcker av Peta Tait

This volume assesses the contributions of André Antoine, Konstantin Stanislavski and Michel Saint-Denis, whose work has influenced theatre and training for over a century. These directors pioneered Naturalism and refined Realism as they experimented with theatrical form including non-Realism. Antoine and Stanislavski's theatre direction proved foundational to the creation of the director's role and artistic vision, and their influential ideas progressively developed through the stylized theatre of Saint-Denis to the innovative contemporary theatre direction of Max Stafford-Clark, Declan Donnellan and Katie Mitchell.

In this work, Peta Tait's central argument is that performing emotions in realism is also performing gender identity. She investigates how sexual difference impacts on the representations of emotions and develops an accumulative analysis of the meanings of emotions in 20th-century realist drama.

Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of high-wire acrobatics and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.