Regietheater
Regietheater noun: the modern practice of allowing a director freedom to diverge from the original intentions of the playwright or operatist, for example by changing the geographical and chronological setting, or by adapting the work to highlight issues of race and gender.
Noun
Regietheater (uncountable)
- The modern practice of allowing a director freedom to diverge from the original intentions of the playwright or operatist, for example by changing the geographical and chronological setting, or by adapting the work to highlight issues of race and gender.
- If nothing he [Patrice Chéreau] did for the screen had the genre-shaking impact of his stage work — his 1976 “Ring” cycle at Bayreuth helped usher in an era of Regietheater, or director’s theater — he did raise eyebrows with the sexually explicit “Intimacy” (2001), starring all of Mark Rylance, the...2014 February 28, Rachel Saltz, “It Takes a Funeral: So Much Angst”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin of Regietheater
Borrowed from German Regietheater (“director's theater”).
Questions about Regietheater
- What does Regietheater mean?
- Regietheater means the modern practice of allowing a director freedom to diverge from the original intentions of the playwright or operatist, for example by changing the geographical and chronological setting, or by adapting the work to highlight issues of race and gender.
- What part of speech is Regietheater?
- Regietheater is a noun.
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