Contemporary mise en scène : staging theatre today /
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| Author / Creator: | Pavis, Patrice, 1947- |
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| Uniform title: | Mise en scène contemporaine. English |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. |
| Description: | xvi, 358 p. : ill. ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9129016 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Where did mise en scène come from? Origins and theory
- The origins of mise en scène: historical landmarks
- Steps in the evolution of mise en scène
- 2. On the frontiers of mise en scène
- The stage reading
- Non-mise en scène
- Improvised mise en scène
- 3. The difference between mise en scène and performance
- Mise en scène and performance: a shaky couple
- The current state of the performance and mise en scène relationship
- Four examples of cooperation
- Conclusions: performance studies/theatre studies
- 4. Tendencies in French scenography
- The powers of stage illusion
- Fantasy and the real
- Crossing the image
- The echoes of space
- The migration of subspaces
- The silence of space
- Concluding remarks
- 5. The mise en jeu of contemporary texts
- Combat de nègre et de chiens
- Papa doit manger
- Le bonheur du vent
- A tous ceux qui ...
- Conclusions
- Contents note continued: 6. The intercultural trap: rituality and mise en scène in the video art of Guillermo Gomez-Pena
- Current context
- Ritual?
- Reverse anthropology?
- A body with variable identities?
- Mise en scène as the theatricalisation of rituals?
- 7. Theatre in another culture: a Korean example
- A season in heaven
- Korean theatre seen from afar
- 8. Media on the stage
- Theatre and media
- Technology/media
- Other media in performance
- Historical landmarks
- Possibilities for video on stage
- Effects of media on our perception
- Suggestions for the analysis of media in mise en scène
- Working hypotheses
- Three examples
- General conclusions
- 9. The deconstruction of postmodern mise en scène
- Impossible erasure of the palimpsest
- Deconstruction and the reconstruction of tradition
- The undecidability of meaning
- Crisis of representation and chorality
- In praise of the void and of slowness
- The degraded ritual of repetition
- Contents note continued: To exit representation
- Deconstructing representation
- Conclusions: T̀o have done with the judgement of god' (Artaud) and with deconstruction?
- 10. Physical theatre and the dramaturgy of the actor
- May B. by Maguy Marin: touched by the other
- Itsi Bitsi: the dramaturgy of the actress
- Les étourdis, La Cour des grands by Macha Makeïff and Jerôme Deschamps: the body in bits
- From the body art of the past to the multiple identities of the present
- Andromaque on the cutting edge: Michel Liard's art of looking and listening
- Les ephémères du soleil: inventing collectively
- 11. The splendour and the misery of interpreting the classics
- The c̀lassical effect'
- A tricky typology
- The end of the radical, fascination with the present
- New forms for old questions
- A new relationship with tradition
- Operating on the classics
- A few signs of the times
- General conclusions
- Contents note continued: 12. Staging calamity: mise en scène and performance at Avignon 2005
- L'histoire des larmes
- Je suis sang
- Dieu et les esprits vivants
- B.#03 Berlin
- Anathème
- Puur
- Mue
- The Biography Remix
- Final remarks
- 13. Conclusions: Where is mise en scène going?
- A winding path
- A contrasting state of affairs: the 1990s
- The mise en cause of mise en scène
- Directing and its doubles: doubling the director
- From the spectator to the theatrical assembly
- On faithfulness: or the difficult life of the couple that is text-performance
- Where are we going?.
