Contemporary Mise en Scène: Staging Theatre Today

ISBN-13: 9780415553438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 384 str.

Patrice Pavis

Opis

This study considers the staged reading, and the frontiers of mise en scene scenography, which sometimes replaces staging the reinterpretation of classical and contemporary works the extension of intercultural theatre and ritual new technologies and their live usage on the stage the postmodern practice of deconstruction.

Spis treści

1 Where did mise en scène come from? 2 On the frontiers of mise en scène 3 The difference between mise en scène and performance 4 Tendencies in French scenography 5 The mise en jeu of contemporary texts 6 The intercultural trap: rituality and mise en scène in the video art of Guillermo Gómez-Peña 7 Theatre in another culture: a Korean example 8 Media on the stage 9 The deconstruction of postmodern mise en scène 10 Physical theatre and the dramaturgy of the actor 11 The splendour and the misery of interpreting the classics 12 Staging calamity: mise en scène and performance at Avignon 2005 13 Conclusions: Where is mise en scène going?

O autorze

Patrice Pavis is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Kent. He was formerly Professor of Theatre Studies at Paris VIII University. His Dictionary of the Theatre has been published in 30 different languages.