AMERICAN NEW WAVE
of a multitude of visions.
A "journey across the Atlantic" to discover some of the most representative directors and set designers of the last thirty years of Broadway theatre. A multicultural galaxy made up of a multitude of visions from which creativity and innovation spring.
The Scenographers’ “American New Wave" Series is a visually stunning and in-depth look at some of the most outstanding - and breathtaking - productions on the American stages today.
Each book contains more than 200 images. Every page has an original layout. Prestigious books to collect.
TRUST IN THEATRE
Csaba Antal clearly belongs to this second group. He identifies with its spirit. He embraces it, cultivates it and works wholeheartedly for its fulfilment. His settings and costumes, beyond the diversity of the plays put on stage, assert his trust in theatre. A trust without any suspicion, a trust allowing him to roll out theatrical expression in all is diversity, to highlight sources of beauty and to represent tragic cases of desperation. He does not use elimination but does not fall in the trap of inordinate decoration either. In his work, everything reflects the pleasure of inhabiting the stage and the desire to enjoy it. Without guilt or any indictment, because Csaba Antal stands for agreements, founding his work on an intensive and tangible “yes”. His way of reading or presenting a script is always on the basis of a positive relationship with the stage.
Csaba Antal is on the side of art theatre but it is not a theatre folded on itself, captive to a refinement risking to sap its energy. His work is made of and is dressed by tangible theatre material, its resources explored with passion and engagement. He has no doubt in theatre. He is fully vested in his approach, based on what constitutes theatre and what supports communication. Csaba Antal’s scenic work seduces by its diversity but this is a diversity indifferent to the sort of neutral availability, which is deprived of any identity. His work is a signature reaching across an abundance of solutions and a journey through great texts as well as famous operas. He is one and manifold, as any theatre man, strange to the slightest accusatory tone. He does not indict theatre, he embraces it. Decidedly, Csaba Antal stands with the camp of artists who have believed in the powers of theatre.
The other group unites artists mobilising theatre resources, summoning and exalting them in the name of a common dream, without any reluctance or suspicion They make theatre without any reservation, indulging in the exercise of their art. They are best exemplified by Meyerhold or Reinhardt, however opposed they appear to be; or later by Wilson and Mnouchkine.
Writer, theatre critic, and academic.
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It is a large-format illustrated book featuring 44 theatrical productions.
Among European directors, I would mention: Anatoli Vassiliev (Odeon Théatre De Europe, Paris), French director Daniel Mesghuich (Comédie Française Paris, Opéra National De Baurdeaux, Oper Leipzig) and among Hungarian directors, it is worth mentioning: Balázs Kovalik (we present his 10 most important theatrical works presented at the National Opera Budapest and István Örkény Theater, at the Prinzregenten Theater München, Opernhaus in Bonn, Staatsoper in Berlin, National Opera in Zagreb.
Buy this book, it is absolutely essential for anyone studying or teaching set design at the Academies, as well as offering a broad overview of 44 theatrical productions that will also inspire those working in the theater.
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