The Great Stage Directors, volume 6: Littlewood, Planchon, Strehler

This collection of essays by international experts (Michel Bataillon, Bent Holm, Pia Kleber, Margherita Laera, Robert Leach and Danielle Mérahi) illustrates how three of the twentieth-century’s most important European theatre directors – Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon – revisited works from the classic dramatic canon by drawing on popular theatre traditions, in order to reach out to spectators beyond the educated middle-class elite, and put theatre in the service of uniting a traumatised post-war continent. The volume is one of an eight-part series entitled The Great European Stage Directors that are edited by leading theatre studies experts and aimed at theatre practitioners, academics and students.