John Ginman: Out of Joint: Max Stafford-Clark and 'the Temper of Our Time'
Contemporary Theatre Review (London: Routledge) Vol. 13 (3) pp. 16 – 25 2003
This article was commissioned as part of a special edition of
Contemporary Theatre Review
focusing on The Director as Cultural Critic, to mark ten years of Max
Stafford-Clark’s production activity with Out of Joint. It includes new
interview material with Max Stafford-Clark and Mark Ravenhill, and
considers diverse aspects of Stafford-Clark’s practice with Out of
Joint, including his approach to rehearsal, and to proxemics and stage
design. The discussion focuses particularly on productions of plays by
Ravenhill and Sebastian Barry, as well as the verbatim play
A State Affair by Robin Soans.
