Ivo van Hove

Susan Bennett is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her books include Theatre Audiences (1997), Performing Nostalgia (1996) and Theatre & Museums (2013). Recent edited collections are Shakespeare Beyond English (co-edited with Christie Carson, 2013) and Performing Environments: Site-Specificity in Medieval & Early Modern Drama (co-edited with Mary Polito, 2014). She is series editor, with Kim Solga, for Theory for Theatre Studies (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama). Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the English Department at King's College London, UK. Her publications include her book, Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007), and World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance (2005), and critical editions of The Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 ( 2014) and John Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore for Arden Early Modern Drama (2011).

List of Illustrations Colour Plates Notes on Contributors Foreword: "My Life in Theatre"- Ivo van Hove Acknowledgements Introduction - Susan Bennett and Sonia Massai Interview with Ivo van Hove; Interview with Jan Versweyveld; Halina Reijn with Ruth Wilson, in conversation SECTION ONE: Directing the Classics Canonical Iconoclasm - Sonia Massai Hedda Meets a Big Gun - Mark Lawson Playing Female Roles in the Classics: A Conversation - Halina Reijn and Ruth Wilson Hedda Gabler: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove Ivo van Hove Staging Shakespeare: World Enough and Time? - Kate Bassett The Taming of the Shrew: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove Staging Ivo van Hove at BAM - Joseph V. Melillo Staging Ivo van Hove at the Barbican: An Interview with Toni Racklin - Sonia Massai Roman Tragedies: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove Staging Ivo van Hove at the Schaubühne, Berlin: An Interview with Maja Zade - Sonia Massai Edward II: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove The Misanthrope: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove Staging Shakespeare at Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Political Murders and Backroom Politics - Laurens de Vos Two Rival Queens Caught in a Museum: Mary Stuart - Laurens de Vos Ivo van Hove's Antigone: A Contemporary Update - George Rodosthenous Antigone: Director's Notes - Ivo van Hove SECTION TWO: The Festival Performances of Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam 'Everywhere we traveled we became the centre of the festival': Interviews with Ivo van Hove and Wouter van Ransbeek - Keren Zaiontz SECTION THREE: American Theatre Ivo van Hove and the Art of Humanity - Joshua E. Polster The Little Foxes: A Modern Morality Tale about Restriction and Greed - Susan C.W. Abbottson Angels in America, the Bare Dutch Version - Emile Schra A View from Salem: Ivo van Hove's The Crucible - Joshua E. Polster SECTION FOUR: Opera across Europe Ivo van Hove and Opera: A Critical Overview - Francois Jongen More than Wall Street in Macbeth -Frédéric Maurin La Clemenza di Tito and the Crisis of Democracy - Marcin Bogucki Cruelly Beautiful: Ivo van Hove's Mazeppa - Johanna Wall Brokeback Mountain: 'Why Can't I Say What I Want to Say' - José-Máximo Leza Fantasy and Reality in Salome - Frédéric Maurin SECTION FIVE: Creation, Adaptation, Direction Directing Across Genre: Film, Fiction, Music, Theatre - Susan Bennett Synedoche, Adaptation, and the Staged Screenplay: Van Hove's Obsession(s) - Julie Sanders Archaeological Adventures in Spectating: Obsession and Scenes from a Marriage - P.A. Skantze The Intensification of the Novel: Ayn Rand's and Ivo van Hove's The Fountainhead - Denis Flannery Building Blocks: Ivo van Hove and the Barbican Box Project - Rachael Nicholas A Tale of Two Cities: Lazarus in New York and London by Susan Bennett Selected Further Reading Notes Bibliography Index