French Theater Since 1968
Author : Bettin Knapp
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1995-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780614025804
Author : Bettin Knapp
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1995-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780614025804
Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN :
One of the Twayne's World Authors Series, this volume features: an interpretive study of French theatre since 1968, a brief biography; a chronology and relevant historical background; and aids to further study including notes, references and annotated bibliography.
Author : Kate Bredeson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810138174
Occupying the Stage: the Theater of May '68 tells the story of student and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theater history, and the story of French theater through the lens of May '68. Based on detailed archival research and original translations, close readings of plays and historical documents, and a rigorous assessment of avant-garde theater history and theory, Occupying the Stage proposes that the French theater of 1959–71 forms a standalone paradigm called "The Theater of May '68." The book shows how French theater artists during this period used a strategy of occupation-occupying buildings, streets, language, words, traditions, and artistic processes-as their central tactic of protest and transformation. It further proposes that the Theater of May '68 has left imprints on contemporary artists and activists, and that this theater offers a scaffolding on which to build a meaningful analysis of contemporary protest and performance in France, North America, and beyond. At the book's heart is an inquiry into how artists of the period used theater as a way to engage in political work and, concurrently, questioned and overhauled traditional theater practices so their art would better reflect the way they wanted the world to be. Occupying the Stage embraces the utopic vision of May '68 while probing the period's many contradictions. It thus affirms the vital role theater can play in the ongoing work of social change.
Author : Judith Graves Miller
Publisher : Lexington, Ky. : French Forum, Incorporated
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Arts and revolutions
ISBN :
Author : Annie Sparks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1408148897
A invaluable survey of French theatre since 1968 Mise en Scène is a book in two parts. The first half is a probing look at French theatre now, providing an historical and critical survey of drama and theatre in France since 1968. It explores playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Michel Vinaver and Bernard-Marie Koltès and directors of international reputation such as Peter Brook, Robert Wilson, Roger Planchon, Antoine Vitez, Patrice Chereau and Ariane Mnouchkine. The second part of Mise en Scène features a comprehensive listings guide to major theatre companies, insitutions, festivals, training schools and invaluable A-Z profiles of contemporary playwrights and directors from France.
Author : Lenora Champagne
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN :
Author : Edward Forman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810874512
The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the Theater of the Absurd erupted in rationalistic France with Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The Historical Dictionary of French Theater relates the history of the French theater through a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, trends, genres, concepts, and literary and historical developments that played a central role in the evolution of French theater.
Author : Kate Bredeson
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.
ISBN : 9780810138155
Drawing on meticulous original archival research, Occupying the Stage explores the May 1968 student and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theater history, and the story of French theater through the lens of May '68.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 1984-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521278812
In the years since 1940, French theatre has been transformed both institutionally and artistically. This book compares all the major traditions and tendencies at work in French theatre since the outbreak of the Second World War, not only in Paris, but also in the Centres Dramatiques and Maisons de la Culture. Previous books have stopped short at the end of the fifties when the influence of Artaud was strong and the Absurd Theatre had become the new orthodoxy. David Bradby reassesses Beckett, lonesco, Adamov and Genet and challenges the notion that the sixties and seventies were a period of decline in French theatre. The book proceeds chronologically, offering a critical survey of the principal directors, actors and companies as well as of the playwrights, who are its major concern. Important productions are illustrated with black and white photographs. The political background is explained and all quotations are in English.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1991-05-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521408431
An updated account and comparison of the major traditions and tendencies in the French theatre from 1940-1990.