Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415060387 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 228 str.

Patrice Pavis;Pavis Patrice

Opis

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake - politically and aesthetically - when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre. A series of recent productions are analyzed, including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande and Barba's Faust. These tend to focus discussions of translation, appropriation, adaptation, cultural problems of colonialism, anthropology and ethnography.

Spis treści

Preface, 1 TOWARD A THEORY OF CULTURE AND MISE EN SCÈNE, 2 FROM PAGE TO STAGE: A DIFFICULT BIRTH, 3 THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE OF MODERN DRAMA: THE CASE OF POSTMODERN THEATRE, 4 ON THEORY AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS AND ITS LIMITED INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY DRAMA WHETHER MAJORITY OR MINORITY, 5 THEATRE AND THE MEDIA: SPECIFICITY AND INTERFERENCE, 6 TOWARD SPECIFYING THEATRE TRANSLATION, 7 DANCING WITH FAUST: REFLECTIONS ON AN INTERCULTURAL MISE EN SCÈNE BY EUGENIO BARBA, 8 INTERCULTURALISM IN CONTEMPORARY MISE EN SCÈ NE: THE IMAGE OF INDIA IN THE MAHABHARATA, THE INDIADE, TWELFTH NIGHT AND FAUST, Index

O autorze

Patrice Pavis