TY - GEN TI - The Director as cultural critic KW - Simon, Barney KW - Kaufman, Moïsès, KW - Norday, Stanislas KW - Jaques, Brigitte KW - Bieito, Calixto KW - Lavaudant, Georges KW - Kuo, Pao Kun KW - Directors escènics KW - Directores escèniques N1 - Conté: Brokering cultural interventions / Barney Simon. Out of joint: Max Stafford-Clark and "the Temper of our time" / John Ginman. Kuo Pao Kun: the Spirit of the eagle / Margaret Chan. A last bastion of resistance: George Lavaudant's Theatrum Mundi / Nicole Fayard. Directeur vs metteur en scène: interviews with Stanislas Nordey and and Brigitte Jaques / Joel Anderson. Calixto Bieito: "Reimagining the text for the age in which it is being staged" and interview / Maria M. Delgado. Moses Kaufman: "Reconstructing history through theatre" and interview / Caridad Svich ER -