Ivo Van Hove Onstage (Paperback)

Chronology

VAN HOVE, VIRTUOSO

By David Willinger

PART I

INTRODUCTION

• Progressions and Patterns
• When We Say Van Hove We Don’t Mean It
• The Flemish and Dutch Historical Context
• Antecedents

• Antonin Artaud
• Patrice Chereau
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder

PART II

THE DIRECTOR SEEN FROM MULTIPLE ANGLES

A THEATRE OF EXPERIMENTATION AND EXCESS

• Transcending Traditions, Violating Norms
• A Repertory From Left-Field
• Overkill
• Unlikely Casting
• Acting and Emotions: Not the Method or a Method
• The American Alchemy

A POETICS OF PRECARIOUS THEATRICAL SPACE

• Tasteless Containment Chambers
• Chaos in the Walls and Under the Floorboards
• People in Glass Houses
• Hoarders On-Stage
• Where the Audience Becomes the Clutter
• Coming Full Circle to a Magic Circle
• Mix and Match
• The Brave New World

PERSISTENT LEITMOTIFS OF GENDER

• A New Queer Aesthetic
• Sex Acts/Acting Sex
• The Difficult Woman
• Today’s Man

THE CONTINUUM BETWEEN AGIT-PROP AND AESTHETE

LANGUAGE AND ITS DOUBLE

SIGNATURES AND TICS

• The Highest Form of Flattery

AT PRESENT

• More Stately Warhorses
• Safely Subversive
• The Impure

PART III

KEY PRODUCTIONS

• Wild Lords: A Defining Oeuvre de Jeunesse
• Desire Under the Elms: Cows Without Borders
• Splendid’s: Artaud Resplendent
• Faces: Poor Theatre for Suburban Marriages
• A Massacre at Paris: Exercise in Style
• A Tale of Three Hedda Gablers
• True Love: Scabrous and Skittish
• Rocco and His Brothers: Taking the Gloves off For Love
• Cries and Whispers: Unbridled Pain
• Antonioni Project: Formal Intricacy
• Persona: Human Intimacy, Metaphysical Expanse
• Ludwig: Signs of Madness
• Edward II: How the Other Half Lives

INTO THE FUTURE

Endnotes

Bibliography

FROM MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA TO LONG DAY’S

JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: IVO VAN HOVE DIRECTS EUGENE O’NEILL

By Johan Callens

IVO VAN HOVE’S CINEMA ON-STAGE:

RECONSTRUCTING THE CREATIVE PROCESS

By Serge Goriely

LOVE STILL IS LOVE EVEN WHEN IT LACKS HARMONY:

ANTIGONE AND THE ATTEMPT TO HUMANIZE TRAGEDY

By Charlotte Gruber

REALITY OVERTAKES MYTH: IVO VAN HOVE STAGES DER RING

DES NIBELUNGEN

By Francis Maes

KINGS OF WAR OR THE POWER GAME

By Johan Thielemans

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1: The Roman Tragedies Dossier

"Staging the Twitter War"

"The Politics of Distraction"

APPENDIX 2: Theatre is the Artform of the 21st Century: Interview with Ivo van Hove By Johan Reyniers