Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage: El Teatre Còmic En Català (1900-2016)

ISBN-13: 9781787073227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str.

Francis Lough; John London; Gabriel Sansano

Opis

This volume is the first concentrated attempt to analyse Catalan theatre under the comic lens, including the study of comic form, performative innovations and socio-political function. It includes theatre from several regions where Catalan is spoken and makes a strong case for the contribution Catalan makes to European culture.

Spis treści

Contents: Reception and Influences - David George: Comic and Catalan?: The Commedia dell'Arte in Catalonia in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries - Maria Moreno i Domènech: Primera història d'Esther i La corte del rey Assuero [The (First) Story of Esther and The Court of King Ahasuerus] - Enric Gallén: Dario Fo a Catalunya: el cas de Mort accidental d'un anarquista [Dario Fo in Catalonia: The Case of Accidental Death of an Anarchist] - Héctor Mellinas: Humor i absurd: escenes brossianes [Humour and the Absurd: Brossian Theatres] - Textual Strategies - Rhiannon McGlade - Beyond Carpanta: Humour in the Plays of Josep Escobar - John London: Comedy in French Catalonia: Adventures in Mockery and Self-Mockery - Isabel Marcillas-Piquer: Strategies for Comedy in Plays by Contemporary Catalan Women - Acting Humour - Núria Santamaria: Joaquim Montero i Delgado, trànsits i cruïlles [Joaquim Montero i Delgado: Passages and Intersections] - Simon Breden: Power, Politics, and Comic Theatre: Political Satire as Dissidence in La torna and Ubú president by Els Joglars - Martí B. Fons Sastre: La influència de la pedagogia de Jacques Lecoq dins l'escena còmica catalana contemporània: la dramatúrgia de l'actor de Sergi López i Toni Albà [The Pedagogical Influence of Jacques Lecoq on the Contemporary Catalan Stage: The Acting Dramaturgy of Sergi López and Toni Albà] Gabriel Sansano: Xavi Castillo i Pot de Plom: entre la transgressió i la sàtira política (1985-2015) [Xavi Castillo and Pot de Plom: Between Transgression and Political Satire (1985-2015)].

O autorze

John London is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of the Centre for Catalan Studies at Queen Mary University of London.

Gabriel Sansano is Professor of Catalan Studies at the University of Alacant (Spain).