Contemporary French Theatre and Performance

by Finburgh, Clare; Lavery, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780230580510
• ISBN10: 0230580513
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Clare Finburgh is Senior Lecturer in Modern Drama at the University of Essex, UK. She has co-edited Genet: Performance and Politics (with Carl Lavery and Maria Shevtsova, Palgrave, 2006), and published many articles on subjects from Jean Genet, to a range of contemporary French and Francophone theatremakers including Valre Novarina, Nolle Renaude and Kateb Yacine. Carl Lavery is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth University, UK. His most recent publications are The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution (2010) and 'Good Luck Everybody', Lone Twin: Journeys, Performances and Conversations (with David Williams, 2011).

Table of Contents

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 Production of 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
PART II: 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: The Dissenting 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 Toutes Ces Elles/After All This Else: 'New' French Feminisms Translated to the British Scene; G.Harris
Index