From the beginning, Georges Lavaudant has positioned himself against theatrical tradition – dramaturgical analysis – preferring to explore the stage and its hybrid forms that combine theatre, dance, singing, the presentation of photos, and videos.

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La Photographie au théâtre proves that theatrical aesthetics have never ceased, for nearly 150 years, to be deeply influenced by the very existence of the photographic media, with its apparatus, its production processes, the flow of its images, its uses and techniques.

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André Engel, French atypical stage director, has been working since 1972 for theater and opera. As he met the theater's création by chance, he first maked his shows " hors les murs" (riding center, factory, shed) with the same artistique team, the drama advisors Bernard Pautrat then Dominique Muller, decorator Nicky Rieti and lighting designer ...

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Throughout history, French theatre showed great confidence in its supremacy over foreign theatres - whether ancient or contemporary. Such a certainty was reinforced by the success of Parisian plays all over Europe.

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Long despised by the critics, popular shows are studied in this book as a media culture evolving through different forms of aural and visual representations, theatre, cinema, music-hall and others, often with a hypermediatic dimension.

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This study proposes a historical and aesthetic travel through the colour black in theater. By giving concrete examples, the book reflects this evolution and establishes darkness as a light among the stage's components.

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Théâtre et intermédialité propose une première application en français, à grande échelle et sur des objets variés – analyses de spectacles, modes de production, discours théoriques – des concepts intermédiaux, ou de concepts repris par l'intermédialité, à l’univers du théâtre. Si les études intermédiales, qui sont nées dans le sillage de la ...

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Une équipe internationale constituée de 21 chercheurs en théâtre, cinéma, divertissements populaires, littérature, médias et musique présente dans cet ouvrage les résultats de l'analyse du fonds d'archives de la ART (Association de la Régie Théâtrale). Cette vaste collection de plus de 6 500 documents porte sur 2 000 spectacles créés à Paris...

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Quand Voltaire débarrassait la scène des Comédiens-Français, un équilibre nouveau s'imposait entre la scène et la salle. L’auteur devait charger la mémoire des comédiens d’un faisceau de recommandations destinées à conjurer un vide soudainement révélé. Aux premiers temps du Théâtre-Libre, André Antoine devait retrouver le problème du côté du...

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Les dramaturgies contemporaines se passionnent pour le corps, les corps. Jadis instrument de l'action dramatique, le corps reprend à présent ses droits sur scène ; se donne alors à voir la physis d’un corps vulnérable, désirant, traversé d’intensités...

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Peut-on filmer le théâtre ?Pourquoi, pour qui, et comment ?Autant de questions décisives abordées ici sous des angles variés à l'heure ou la multiplication et la démocratisation des technologies ne font qu'accroître la demande de contenus et...

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This volume analyses the works of the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, studies the founding tension between individual and collective history — written, re-written and infinitely open to the games of memory and language…

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W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is known as one of the best poets of his time. He is less known, especially in France, for his numerous theatre plays…

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Annoncé par la sémiologie, le débat naissant entre sciences humaines (théâtrologie, sociologie, anthropologie) et sciences dures (biologie, neuro-chimie) achève de consommer le divorce historique entre la scène et le texte. En 1975, Sémiologie de...

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Brian Friel, born in 1929 in Northern Ireland, is the author of several radio plays and a dozen theatre plays, given in Belfast, Dublin, London, New York. He is one of the most famous contemporary English-language dramatists…

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The plays gathered here are the works of two famous northern Irish dramatists who experienced the ever-present Civil War that they stage with faith and talent. The spirit that enimates Boyd and Friel is the same, the places are different…

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Collection of literary, occult and political essays, Explorations sheds an essential light on Yeats' work and particularly on his brand new conception of theatrical techniques…

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