Review by Choice Review
Jones (New Mexico) approaches his subject, an investigation of the working techniques of four directors, with the admirable ambition of revealing the process connected with this area of theatrical art. Examining Constantin Stanislavsky directing The Seagull and Bertolt Brecht directing Mother Courage, Jones comes close to fulfilling this intention, only because the directors in question left such extensive explications of their work. In dealing with Elia Kazan directing A Streetcar Named Desire and Peter Brook directing Marat/Sade, Jones finds himself reduced from insight to anecdote as he attempts to stretch Kazan's sketchy notes and a variety of interviews with Brook and other participants in and observers of Brook's work into the equivalent of Stanislavsky's mise-en-sc;
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Review by Choice Review
