The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier by Boenisch Peter M Ostermeier Thomas & Thomas Ostermeier

Author:Boenisch, Peter M,Ostermeier, Thomas & Thomas Ostermeier [Peter M. Boenisch]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317428220
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Note

1 See Steven F. Sage, Ibsen and Hitler: The Playwright, The Plagiarist, and the Plot for the Third Reich, New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.

Chapter 6

Ostermeier on directing

6.1 The Art of Communicating: Thomas Ostermeier’s ‘inductive Method’ of Regie

Based on his two decades’ experience of directing theatre, Thomas Ostermeier has arrived at a set of core principles that underpin his Regie work. In this collaboratively written chapter, we attempt to bring together these techniques and to summarise, for the first time, his methodical approach to directing. The following text results from several years’ worth of intensive observation and from numerous conversations – on occasion of rehearsals and meetings at the Schaubühne and elsewhere, of various workshops, and around the teaching of directing students at Berlin’s Ernst-Busch-Theatre Academy. Working through and writing up many notes, we have opted for a first-person narrative, since it feels to be the most helpful and most natural mode for both authors and readers in this endeavour to articulate and explain a personal method. At times, we will address you directly – imagining you, our reader, as a fellow director, theatre artist, or as someone seeking to gain a deeper insight into the craft of making theatre behind Thomas Ostermeier’s productions, which you may have seen on stage. Importantly, though, we have no intention of offering tried-and-tested recipes for how to cook up a production that tastes exactly like Ostermeier’s theatre. What follows is not a manual intended to be applied and executed to the letter. On the contrary. In his teaching and in his workshops, Ostermeier refers frequently to the famous dictum by French film director François Truffaut, ‘You will never overtake someone if you merely keep treading in their footsteps’. In the same vein, Thomas Ostermeier, the ‘I’ of this narrative, reveals his footprints, in order to enable you to overtake them.

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