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Additional authors

1. Triau, Christophe
2. Allen-Paisant, Jason

Description

1. xii, 615 pages : illustration; 23 cm

Summary

1. "What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is, above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body, an exercise of voice and gesture addressed to an audience, most often in a specific location and with a unique setting. This entertainment event rests on the delivery of a thing promised and expected - a particular and unique performance witnessed by spectators who have come to the site of the performance for this very reason. To witness theatre is to take into account the performance, but it is also to take into account the printed text as readable object and a written proposition. In this book, Christian Biet and Christophe Triau focus on the practical, theoretical and historical positions that the spectator and the reader have had in relation to the locations that they frequent and the texts that they handle. They adopt two approaches: analysing the spectacle in its theatrical and historical context in an attempt to seek out the principles and paradigms of approaching the theatre experience on one hand, and analysing the dramaturgy of a production in order to establish lines of interpretation and how to read, represent and stage a text, on the other. This approach allows us to better understand the ties that link those who participate in the theatre to the practitioners who create theatrical entertainment. " -- Publisher's description.

Uniform title

1. Qu'est-ce que le théâtre?. English

Alternative title

1. Qu'est-ce que le théâtre?.

Subject

1. Theater

Contents

1. Introduction -- Points of view -- Part I. What does it mean to go to the theatre?. Sites and spaces : definitions -- The theatrical space : a concrete space -- Architecture -- Part II. The evolution of material and representational spaces. Some theatrical sites and spaces -- The art of perspective and the social space -- Stage as place and stage as space -- Part III. How to act at the theatre? How the theatrical space functions. Description and vocabulary of the traditional theatre site -- Other stages, other apparatuses -- The coordinates of the stage -- The technical and material elements of the staging space -- On the danger of interpreting everything -- Part IV. Time, rhythm, tempo -- Part V. The body, the actor's play and illusion -- Part VI. The reader of theatre texts -- Part VII. Staging : traditions, concerns. The age of all powers -- The experience of relativity -- Theatricality questioned : a theatre without illusion? -- Conclusion.

Call number

1. MWE 19-3450

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Biet, Christian, author.

Title

1. What is the theatre? / Christian Biet and Christophe Triau ; translation Jason Allen-Paisant ; with the collaboration of Joanne Brueton.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Triau, Christophe, author.
2. Allen-Paisant, Jason, translator.

LCCN

1. 2018039380

Other standard identifier

1. 40028990057

ISBN

1. 9781138701649 hardcover
2. 1138701645 hardcover
3. 9781138701656 paperback
4. 1138701653 paperback

Research call number

1. MWE 19-3450