Contemporary French theatre and performance
By: edited by Clare Finburgh and Carl Lavery
Series: Performance interventions; Performance interventions
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780230580510
Subjects: Theater; Experimental theater; History
Description: "This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France"--
Notes: "This book is supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the Burgess programme run by the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in London"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on contributors; title: Introduction; C.Finburgh & C.Lavery; title: PART I: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THEATRE; title: From Mise en Scène of Texte to Performance of 'Textual Material'; D.Bradby; title: The Spirit of a Place: Place in Contemporary French Performance; M.Corvin; title: The Landscaped Narratives of Philippe Minyana and Noëlle; C.Hersant; title: The Politics of Dramaturgy in France; C.Finburgh; title: An Unlikely Scene: French Theatre in the New Liberal Economy; J-P.Han; title: The Construction and Production of Performance; R.Cantarella; title: Performing Presence, Affirming Difference: Deleuze and the Minor Theatres of Georges Lavaudant and Carmelo Bene; L.Cull; title: Theatre du Grabuge: Ethics, Politics and Community; B.Hamidi; title: Amateurism and the 'DIY' Aesthetic: Grand Magasin and Philippe Quesne; C.Dechery; title: PART II: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH PERFORMANCE; title: From Orlan to Bernhardt: Recycling French Feminism, Theatre and Performance; E.Aston; title: Performance and Poetry: Crossed Destinies; É.Vautrin; title: Breaking Down the Walls: Interventionist Performance Strategies in French Street Theatre; S.Haedicke; title: Montage and Detournement in Contemporary Moving Image Performance; C.Lavery; title: Xavier Le Roy: The Dissenting Choreography of One Frenchman Less; B.Cvejic; title: A Theological Turn? French Postmodern Dance and Herman Diephuis' D'Après J C; N.Stewart; title: How to Collaborate With Someone you may Never Meet; A.Corrieri; title: Après Toutes Ces Elles/After All This Else: 'New' French Feminisms Translated to the British Scene; G.Harris; title: Index.