Since his emergence from the Flemish avant-garde movement of the 1980s, Ivo van Hove's directorial career has crossed international boundaries, challenging established notions of theatre-making. He has brought radical interpretations of the classics to America and organic acting technique to Europe. Ivo van Hove Onstage is the first full English language study of one of theatre's most prominent iconoclasts. It presents a comprehensive, multifaceted account of van Hove's extraordinary work, including key productions, design innovations, his revolutionary approach to text and ambience, and his relationships with specific theatres and companies.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- The director seen from multiple angles -- A theatre of experimentation and excess -- Poetics of precarious theatrical space -- Persistent leitmotifs of gender -- The continuum between agit-prop and aesthete language and its double -- Signatures and tics -- At present -- Key productions -- Into the future.