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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.