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 IllustrationsColour PlatesNotes on ContributorsForeword: “My Life in Theatre”- Ivo van HoveAcknowledgementsIntroduction - Susan Bennett and Sonia MassaiInterview with Ivo van Hove;Interview with Jan Versweyveld;Halina Reijn with Ruth Wilson, in conversationSECTION ONE: Directing the ClassicsCanonical Iconoclasm - Sonia MassaiHedda Meets a Big Gun - Mark LawsonPlaying Female Roles in the Classics: A Conversation - Halina Reijn and Ruth WilsonHedda Gabler: Director’s Notes - Ivo van HoveIvo van Hove Staging Shakespeare: World Enough and Time? - Kate BassettThe Taming of the Shrew: Director’s Notes - Ivo van HoveStaging Ivo van Hove at BAM - Joseph V. MelilloStaging Ivo van Hove at the Barbican: An Interview with Toni Racklin - Sonia MassaiRoman Tragedies: Director’s Notes - Ivo van HoveStaging Ivo van Hove at the Schaubühne, Berlin: An Interview with Maja Zade - Sonia MassaiEdward II: Director’s Notes - Ivo van HoveThe Misanthrope: Director’s Notes - Ivo van HoveStaging Shakespeare at Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Political Murders and Backroom Politics - Laurens de VosTwo Rival Queens Caught in a Museum: Mary Stuart - Laurens de VosIvo van Hove’s Antigone: A Contemporary Update - George RodosthenousAntigone: Director’s Notes - Ivo van HoveSECTION 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 ZaiontzSECTION THREE: American TheatreIvo van Hove and the Art of Humanity - Joshua E. PolsterThe Little Foxes: A Modern Morality Tale about Restriction and Greed - Susan C.W. AbbottsonAngels in America, the Bare Dutch Version - Emile SchraA View from Salem: Ivo van Hove’s The Crucible - Joshua E. PolsterSECTION FOUR: Opera across EuropeIvo van Hove and Opera: A Critical Overview - Francois JongenMore than Wall Street in Macbeth -Frédéric MaurinLa Clemenza di Tito and the Crisis of Democracy - Marcin BoguckiCruelly Beautiful: Ivo van Hove’s Mazeppa - Johanna WallBrokeback Mountain: ‘Why Can’t I Say What I Want to Say’ - José-Máximo LezaFantasy and Reality in Salome - Frédéric MaurinSECTION FIVE: Creation, Adaptation, DirectionDirecting Across Genre: Film, Fiction, Music, Theatre - Susan BennettSynedoche, Adaptation, and the Staged Screenplay: Van Hove’s Obsession(s) - Julie SandersArchaeological Adventures in Spectating: Obsession and Scenes from a Marriage - P.A. SkantzeThe Intensification of the Novel: Ayn Rand’s and Ivo van Hove’s The Fountainhead - Denis FlanneryBuilding Blocks: Ivo van Hove and the Barbican Box Project - Rachael NicholasA Tale of Two Cities: Lazarus in New York and London by Susan BennettSelected Further ReadingNotesBibliographyIndex

Fascinating insights into the breadth, diversity, evolution, and significance of van Hove’s work.