Theatre & Performance Studies

Contemporary Mise en Scène

Staging Theatre Today

By Patrice Pavis
Translated by Joel Anderson

Contemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s masterful analysis of the role that staging has played in the creation and practice of theater throughout history.

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Contemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s masterful analysis of the role that staging has played in the creation and practice of theater throughout history. This stunningly ambitious study considers:

• the staged reading, at the frontiers of mise en scène;

• scenography, which sometimes replaces staging;

• the reinterpretation of classical and contemporary works;

• the development of intercultural theater and ritual;

• new technologies and their usage live on the stage;

• the postmodern practice of deconstruction.

But it also applies sustained critical attention to the challenges of defining mise en scène, of tracking its development, and of exploring its possible futures. Joel Anderson’s powerful new translation lucidly realises Pavis’s investigation of the changing possibilities for stagecraft in the context of performance art, physical theater and modern theory.

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