The Paris jigsaw Internationalism and the city's stages

by Bradby, David; Delgado, Maria M.

• ISBN13: 9780719061844
• ISBN10: 0719061849
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-04-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book examines the creation and development of communities of actors, directors, designers, and playwrights in Paris over the past 30 years. Incorporating both the views of academic experts in the field and a range of practitioners who have shaped the city's theatrical cultures, it demonstrates how the pioneering work of Brook, Boal, Mnouchkine, and many others has been able to draw on this vibrant, multi-cultural mix, in turn creating new work that has enriched theater's potential to enlarge our thinking and our imagination.

Author Biography

David Bradby is Professor of Drama and Theater at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Maria M. Delgado is Reader in Drama and Theater Arts at Queen Mary, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
Notes on the contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xv
Editors' note	xvii
Introduction: piecing together the Paris jigsaw	1	(36)
David Bradby
Maria M. Delgado
PART I Case studies
Peter Brook and the CICT (Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales)
`Towards an art of memory': Peter Brook, a foreigner in Paris	37	(16)
David Williams
`Playful understanding': an interview with David Bennent	53	(5)
David Bradby
David Williams
`The quality of understanding': an interview with Bruce Myers	58	(7)
David Williams
`Communication and the blood of the stage': an interview with Yoshi Oida	65	(6)
David Bradby
David Williams
Peter Brook and the freedom of intercultural theatre	71	(12)
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Jacques Lecoq and his `Ecole Internationale de Theatre' in Paris
The legacy of Lecoq	83	(10)
David Bradby
The pedagogy of the poetic body	93	(9)
Giovanni Fusetti
Suzy Willson
Jacques Lecoq and his influence in Catalonia	102	(11)
Merce Saumell
Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil
Cultural politics and theatrical practical in the history of the Theatre du Soleil	113	(18)
David Bradby
Travels with the Soleil	131	(15)
Jean-Francois Dusigne
Augusto Boal and the Theatre de I'Opprime
Augusto Boal and the journey to the Centre of the Theatre of the Oppressed (Paris)	146	(7)
Paul Heritage
`The crossing of many cultures': an interview with Augusto Boal	153	(13)
Paul Heritage
`Placing two things together, you create a third': an interview with Rui Frati	166	(11)
Joel Anderson
PART II The input of different national theatre traditions to the `internationalism' of Paris theatre
The German presence
The German presence in Paris	177	(9)
Rudolf Rach
David Bradby
The Russian presence
The Russian presence in Paris 1988-2000	186	(12)
Maria Shevtsova
The Spanish presence
`City of Light': an interview with Fernando Arrabal	198	(1)
Alain Schifres
Spanish presence on the contemporary Parisian stage	199	(12)
Phyllis Zatlin
`Paris as a kind of meeting point': an email interview with Lluis Pasqual	211	(7)
Maria M. Delgado
The Latin American presence
An Argentine in Paris: an interview with Jorge Lavelli	218	(14)
Maria M. Delgado
The North American presence
Did Paris steal the show for American postmodern directors?	232	(16)
Frederic Maurin
Creating the theatrical museum: theatrical visions of an alternative America; cultural politics and the Festival d'Automne, 1972-2000	248	(19)
Jim Carmody
The African presence
The African presence in Paris	267	(3)
Judith G. Miller
`Looking outside of Europe': a conversation with Sylvie Chalaye	270	(7)
Judith G. Miller
Afterword: British intersections with Paris	277	(10)
Peter Lichtenfels
Index	287