Meiningen Ensemble

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The Meiningen Ensemble, also known as the Meiningen Company, was the court theatre of the German state of Saxe-Meiningen, led by Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. The Ensemble was a great influence on Ibsen, Antoine, and Stanislavski.[1]

The Duke admired Charles Kean's attempts to stage Shakespeare's plays in a manner that was historically-accurate for the place and period in which each drama was set. The Ensemble that he created, which first toured Germany in 1874, became famous across Europe for its detailed, archeologically-authentic reproductions of locations and its realistic, fully-individuated crowd scenes.[2] Its productions offered a model of an integrated, unified theatrical aesthetic and a demonstration of the potential of a tightly-controlled, director-focused mode of theatre-making.


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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Innes (2000, 10).
  2. ^ Innes (2000, 10).

[edit] Bibliography

  • Innes, Christopher, ed. 2000. A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415152291.