This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France. CLARE FINBURGH Lecturer in Modern Drama at the University of Essex, UK. She has co-edited Genet: Performance and Politics (with Carl Lavery, Palgrave, 2006), and published many articles on subjects from Jean Genet, to a range of contemporary French and Francophone theatre-makers including Valère Novarina, Noëlle Renaude and Kateb Yacine. CARL LAVERY Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth University, UK. His most recent publication is The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution (2010). He is currently co-editing (with David Williams) a book on Lone Twin. INDICE: List of illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on contributors -Introduction; 'C.Finburgh' &' C.Lavery' - PART I: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THEATRE- From 'Mise en Scène' of Texte to Performance of 'Textual Material'; 'D.Bradby' - The Spirit of a Place: Place in Contemporary French Performance; 'M.Corvin' - The Landscaped Narratives of Philippe Minyana and Noëlle; C.Hersant - The Politics of Dramaturgy in France; 'C.Finburgh' - An Unlikely Scene: French Theatre in the New Liberal Economy; 'J-P.Han' - The Construction and Productionof Performance; 'R.Cantarella' - Performing Presence, Affirming Difference: Deleuze and the Minor Theatres of Georges Lavaudant and Carmelo Bene; 'L.Cull' - Théatre du Grabuge: Ethics, Politics and Community; 'B.Hamidi' - Amateurism and the 'DIY' Aesthetic: Grand Magasin and Philippe Quesne; 'C.Déchery' - PARTII: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH PERFORMANCE - From Orlan to Bernhardt: Recycling French Feminism, Theatre and Performance; 'E.Aston' - Performance and Poetry: Crossed Destinies; 'É.Vautrin' - Breaking Down the Walls: Interventionist Performance Strategies in French Street Theatre; 'S.Haedicke' - Montage and 'Détournement' in Contemporary Moving Image Performance; 'C.Lavery' - Xavier Le Roy: TheDissenting Choreography of One Frenchman Less; 'B.Cvejic' - A Theological Turn? French Postmodern Dance and Herman Diephuis'' D'Après J C'; 'N.Stewart' - How to Collaborate With Someone you may Never Meet; 'A.Corrieri' - Après ToutesCes Elles/After All This Else: 'New' French Feminisms Translated to the British Scene; 'G.Harris' - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58051-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido