The most significant events are pain, death and love. Beyond that, all we have are more or less successful exercises of style. I like the texts that time has worked on. Goethe’s Faust contains almost the whole repertoire of issues
Orthography and Identity: In search of a Language for Creole Theatre
Travis Weekes There are many dramatists from the Caribbean work whose work is strongly influenced by the Creole language and culture. These writers range from those who write in French and Kweyòl to those who write in English and Kweyòl
Portugal’s African communities on stage
Catarina Neves[1] In the following article you will meet nine actors for whom Africa is more than thirty million square kilometers of land that make a continent. Put simply, Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambique are a little part of what
Du moujik au kolkhozien ou comment représenter la campagne sur la scène soviétique
Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu* Abstract The censorship in USSR was especially severe on the works presenting land collectivization and transformation of the peasants in kolkhozians. The topic was a taboo from the Stalinist period until the 70ties, when some political-engaged theatres began
Beyond Representation: Re-membering the ‘Ghosts’ of Recent History in Contemporary Performance
Liz Tomlin* Resumé / Abstract Cet article émet l’hypothèse que beaucoup des questionnements de l’Histoire dans le théâtre contemporain refusent de nous donner une représentation visuelle des événements historiques, mais présentent plutôt leur absence. Comme le montre l’exemple choisi (After
Effet-dibbouk, effet-spectre : le théâtre de la mémoire douloureuse
Carole Guidicelli* & Didier Plassard** Abstract The contemporary stage offers a wide range of ghostly apparitions, especially when dealing with traumatic events of recent History. Three recurring modes are here analyzed, through different examples of textual or scenic processes.